Re: WIN2000NT False prophets(!).

From: Martin Spencer-Ford (tpwuk.dash.zero.one_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 11/21/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 23:24:33 GMT

Max Wachtel wrote:
> Martin Spencer-Ford tpwuk.dash.zero.one@ntlworld.com on 11/20/2005 in
> <YhYff.2321$85.1965@newsfe6-win.ntli.net> after much thought,came up
> with this jewel:
>
>
>>Mike, thank you so much for generating the inspiration to what became
>>for me an excellent thread. I have a useless memory at times, and i
>>am too lazy at other times too, but if i remember rightly when
>>Win2000 was due for release, MS put a server/workstation up naked
>>with no firewall installed or active, and left it live for a month i
>>think it was, to see if tweaking the services and policies alone was
>>good enough, and there was a monetary reward for anyone who could
>>hack it. They didn't and in their frustration could only take it down
>>with denial of service attacks (which would have been dropped by any
>>decent firewall).
>>
>>If any of these excellent sources of information could root out those
>>settings for you, or if you can find them for yourself, along with a
>>good firewall policy as well as all those patches and fixes and
>>updates, you should have a truly hardened win2k laptop.
>>
>>I will be hunting for that article too, as it was an excellent read
>>into baseline security for Win2K
>>
>>Thanks again Mike
>>
>>Martin Spencer-Ford
>>(TpwUK)
>
>
> Art Kopp has written some harding tips for w2k
> http://home.epix.net/%7Eartnpeg/Win2KPro.html
> max
Nice one Max, that really is a must read for those using win2k pro!

Martin
(TpwUK)

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