RE: Raw Sockets in WinXP

From: Eric R Menendez (eMenendez@worldnet.att.net)
Date: 07/27/01 

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From: Eric R Menendez <eMenendez@worldnet.att.net>
To: 'Jim' <mlist@budget.co.nz>, "SECURITY-BASICS@SECURITYFOCUS.COM" <SECURITY-BASICS@SECURITYFOCUS.COM>
Subject: RE: Raw Sockets in WinXP 
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 21:51:08 -0400

In the professional version of XP, I believe that the only users with the
rights to create raw sockets are admins. However, the problem occurs in the
home version, in which the default user is the admin. Therefore, any trojan on
a typical home XP box can spoof packets.

-Eric