Re: win98 firewall
From: Gerald Vogt (vogt_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 03/15/05
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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:40:24 +0900
Connected wrote:
> Ever setup a honey pot and see what they get up to? I did once for
> kicks and pretty much every day someone would attempt to login to my
> machine, even though it was a fake login screen sending back fake
> messages to them. Haha.
Yes, but you need a server listing to accept the connections. Your honey
pot played server and logged what happened. If nothing is listening, any
connection attempt will just end with a "cannot connect".
> Well, I know it happened and it was on Win98 (or maybe it was Win95
> now that I think about it) and I was not running a firewall and it was
> just dialup too. Now I run XP and WinME and I always firewall both.
XP and ME do have many services running by default unless you manually
turn them off. Therefore you need a firewall.
Gerald
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