Re: Is it a risk to make a application run as a server?

From: zz (zz_at_nospam.com)
Date: 05/23/04 

Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 15:52:39 GMT

able wrote:
> And is it safe to make WORD or EXCEL access to the internet?
>
>

Anytime something acts as a server it listens on a port and accepts
requests without you requesting anything first. If the application has
no security holes you are pretty safe but most applications have one
somewhere.

It should be safe for you to "allow" Word and Excel to access the
Internet, they make requests and the site(s) they contact send back
packets your firewall will allow to pass since you requested first.
Those apps do not act as servers as far as I know.

g-w

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