Re: REVIEW: "Computer Security for the Home and Small Office", Thomas C. Greene

From: Ant (not_at_home.today)
Date: 08/18/04

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    "XC_22-188-16" wrote...
    > Kleeb wrote:
    > > That sounds like my kind of book. Thanks for the review.
    >
    > I'm 16 years old and I say the guy is full of ***!

    And I say you've got a lot to learn.

    > What about buffer overflow, Huh? What about nessus & dsniff? Home
    > and small office my ass..First of all: You know damn good and well
    > that there is NO WAY to secure a windows O/S..

    Utter rubbish. My Win2K is perfectly secure, and that's without a
    firewall, and without the Sasser patch. Why? Because I understand the
    OS, know exactly what's running and why, don't have stuff listening on
    open ports, and don't go installing or running every piece of malware
    that comes my way. RPC/DCOM, NetBT, SMB, etc, exploits and buffer
    overflows from an Internet connected PC are a non-issue when you have
    minimal services running, and close off the ports that Windows listens
    on by default. I can even use an unpatched IE with little worry, it's
    locked down so tight.

    [snip]
    > Now that you have the tools of hackers and see how they think.

    Do you even know what a hacker is? I've been hacking code for 30
    years.

    [snip]
    > This should scare the hell out of anyone that uses windows.
    > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/security.html

    What's scary about a load of utilities, packet sniffers, and
    encryption software?

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