RE: Raw Sockets in WinXP

From: David Knaack (dknaack@rdtech.com)
Date: 07/25/01 

Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:12:51 -0500 (CDT)
From: David Knaack <dknaack@rdtech.com>
To: Jeff Smith <JSmith@Dentrix.com>
Subject: RE: Raw Sockets in WinXP 
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10107251606180.1258-100000@arthur.rdtech.com>

I'm curious.. Presuming XP is similar to NT in that normal user accounts
are not the same as admin accounts, and it can be configured so that only
admin accounts can do things like install drivers or otherwise modify the
system, could Microsoft set things up so that only accounts specificly
granted the rights to do so could open raw sockets?

This would allow apps that need raw sockets (which are generally few and
far between for regular users) the capability without giving every trojan
the same ability.

Surely the folks at microsoft have thought of this solution. Do they
simply not care? Have they said that they won't do this?

DK 

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On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Jeff Smith wrote:
>  Windows 9x/ME tend to draw a more mom and
> pop type of crowd.  They dodn't care about TCP stacks, fragmentation, secotr
> size, etc.  "MOST" windows user what to read their email, surf the web, open
> elf bowling, and the latest flash program.