RE: XP-SP2 "Feature"
Matthew.van.Eerde_at_hbinc.com
Date: 09/02/04
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Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:06:15 -0700 To: <Jordan_Wiseman@Valleymed.org>, <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
Jordan Wiseman wrote:
> The real uncomfortable thing here is for home users. Imagine someone
> with a small network at home, enabling file and print sharing for their
> local subnet and having the same machine (which could <shudder> be a
> gateway using ICS) to smile and enable the machine to show up in ping
> sweeps.
Don't get overly down on ping. It's not really much of a vulnerability to "show up in a ping sweep". Ignoring ping requests is basically security through obscurity.
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