On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 10:18, kyleat_private wrote: > [...] > The only good defense is to block port 445 and port 139 ports on your > firewall, and set strong passwords for every user on your network, including > administrator accounts. No offense Kyle, but this bad advice. I'm not lashing out at you, but I'm starting to get really irritated when people recommend 'simply block this port on your firewall'. If that is what you have to do, then you have much bigger problems. Firewalls should block ALL PORTS by default. Only allow in what you need to allow in. Anything else should be blocked. And that should include port 445 [1]. Here again: B L O C K A L L B Y D E F A U L T , A L L O W O N L Y W H A T I S N E E D E D . Print this out and stick it on your firewall management console :) Regards, Frank [1] Unless you really need it for some weird reason. But that would make all this a mute point anyway.
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