Re: Security Defects



Get the Threats and Countermeasures and the XP security guides,
from MS, which you should be able to find with searches, and
checkout the discussions you can locate in these with find.
You will notice it is all relative to the nature of use of the XP.
In a stand-alone there is no real need for either, but RPC does
need to be installed if you want all things to work (it does not
however need to be bound to a nic).

<neil.bosh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1148424134.913697.306650@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Well I am actully writing a report on: XP Network Security Features, so
i need some pro and cons on these. Well I got a of postive sides to
it, but a few negative sides, such as this one.

Let say if we are going to install XP Pro on a network, without
implementing any other firewalls, that is, relying on only XP
security...what types of threats we are exposed to ?
Well we have links to site that can help me with these, I would be
grateful as well.

Thanks



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