[ILUG] [FAQ] Anti-Virus for LINUX/UNIX

[James Raftery]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:50:03AM +0000, Conor Daly wrote:
> Port 139 also.  Close all of these in your firewall since you have an M$
> OS running.

Windows is a networking whore - it'll swap packets with anything.
Filter the bejaysus out of it. I had a flat 'drop everything in
any direction' in front of the PDC I used to be responsible for.

To shut it up you need to block TCP and UDP on ports 135, 137, 138, 139
and 445 (Win2K).
See http://www.sans.org/infosecFAQ/firewall/blocking_cisco.htm

If you have a Win2K box, please consider following
http://www.domainregistry.ie/tech/dynamic-dns.html


james
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