Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:29:17 11/17/01
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On November 17, 2001 at 12:17:15, Johan Hutting wrote:
>On November 16, 2001 at 19:10:05, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>Yes XP is a threat because of its "open ports". To sum it up, any program under
>>XP can access any Winsock port, even for evil purposes. On previous versions of
>>Windows it was more difficult.
>>
>>Microsoft did nothing else than to implement the whole BSD protocol (which was
>>not the case in previous versions), but by doing so created a new threat to
>>Internet security. For example it will be easier for hackers to launch huge DoS
>>(Denial of Service) attacks using the Windows XP computers of their victims
>>(computers infected by "bots").
>>
>>More details at http://grc.com/default.htm
>>
>>This is not an anti-MS site. It's a site about Internet security.
>
>It/he's also quite controversial, more details as well at
>http://www.grcsucks.com
Naturally he is controversial. The guy tries to explain to people that their PC
is not secure. You can expect lots of assholes who take advantage of security
holes to try to take him down.
I repeat that www.grc.com is not an anti-MS site. For example, he says that the
firewall provided in Windows XP seems to be doing a fine job.
Christophe
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