Re: Hacker Account Lockouts

From: bookbrad (brad@bookbrad.com)
Date: 03/14/03 

From: "bookbrad" <brad@bookbrad.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:26:27 -0600

Thanks, Jeff, but from what I see, the original poster of this thread never
mentioned any services (and hasn't responded to any of the responses).

Jens Suelwald mentioned that a firewall was a waste of system resources, a
waste of money, and a concept, not a program. Jens advises disabling or
blocking "the service," if I'm reading the thread right. And I can
appreciate the concept.

I'm just wondering which service I could disable to better prevent hackers
from possibly viewing my usernames - or other such system info. (Without
making my system dysfunctional. :)
(I'm still trying to learn ports, and everytime I try locking them down via
my firewall software, I eventually get overzealous and lock out some
necessary application.)

bookbrad.

"Jeff Cochran" <jcochran.nospam@naplesgov.com> wrote in message
news:3e804039.892035499@msnews.microsoft.com...
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:52:49 -0600, "Brad" <brad@bookbrad.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Jens Suelwald" <jsuelwald@werebones.de> wrote in message
> >news:8hoJZwIYP0D@werebones.de...
> >> Hallo, Jeff Cochran...
> ><>...snip...> This service does not need to have internet accessibility.
> >
> >I'm still a novice at security, and a bit confused: which service are
you
> >speaking of?
>
> Don't know. Wasn't my post, it was the original poster's.
>
> Jeff

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