Re: XP Hardening

From: Jean-Baptiste Marchand (Jean-Baptiste.Marchand@hsc.fr)
Date: 09/20/02 

Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:35:36 +0200
From: Jean-Baptiste Marchand <Jean-Baptiste.Marchand@hsc.fr>
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com

ohnonono@hushmail.com wrote:

> Does anyone have a list (whitepaper, .pdf, website, etc) of services
> that can be shut off from a default install of xp to harden it? Also
> does anyone have any other documentation on registry tweaks to harden
> it?

For network services, you may want to take a look at the following
document, _Minimizing Windows network services_, that describes a
possible methodology to close all ports of a Windows 2000/Windows XP
system :

 http://www.hsc.fr/ressources/breves/min_srv_res_win.en.html

For technical details, take a look at :

 http://www.hsc.fr/ressources/articles/srv_res_win/

Hope this helps,

Jean-Baptiste Marchand 

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