Re: Security hole in file sharing (bug?)

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 23:41:38 -0700

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When will someone make a free context sensitive and
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-- 
Roger
"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nospam-comcast.net> wrote in message
news:%23kZVDEDBFHA.2156@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Now or not??  -- Steve
>
> "Roger Abell" <mvpNOSpam@asu.edu> wrote in message
> news:uk08Xv$AFHA.608@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> > What you report is now what I have experienced.
> > How is it that you performed your test?
> >
> > -- 
> > Roger Abell
> > Microsoft MVP (Windows  Security)
> > MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
> > "Massimo" <barone@mclink.it> wrote in message
> > news:%23LzUmk%23AFHA.2788@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> >> I don't know if this has already been reported.
> >>
> >> I have a Windows XP SP2 computer, fully up-to-date with patches, which
> >> connects to the Internet through a dial-up connection.
> >> In the network settings for the dial-up connection, I have disabled the
> >> "client for Microsoft networks" and "file and print sharing"
components,
> > and
> >> I've also disabled NetBIOS on the TCP/IP settings. With this
> > configuration,
> >> I was quite sure my shares wouldn't have been exposed to Internet
> >> users...
> >> but I found, instead, that they are. Altough disabled, the file sharing
> >> services are fully accessible, and I was able to connect to them and
also
> >> use them (by supplying my username/password).
> >>
> >> What's happening here? Are not the connection-specific settings valid
> >> anymore?
> >>
> >> This seems to me quite a serious bug!
> >>
> >> Massimo
> >>
> >> P.S.
> >> I know I can activate the built-in firewall, or stop the server
service,
> > or
> >> fully remove the file sharing network component, and so on... but I
want
> > to
> >> know why I'm settings things right and they're behaving wrong!
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

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