RE: Strange open ports on windows machines

From: Lance Spitzner (lanceat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 26 1999 - 20:25:01 PDT

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On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, La Cholter, William J. wrote:

> > How can you disable the public accessibility of the 135-139 
> > windows ports?
> 
> A non-firewall, non-router approach: go into the network control panel
> applet; go to the network bindings tab; and disable WINS Client on the
> network card that talks to the untrusted network.

I've posted a whitepaper on how to do this.  It focuses on preparing
NT for a firewall install, but covers the same armoring concepts.

http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/nt.html

Lance Spitzner
http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/papers.html

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