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Riprock wrote:

> What if you have no ports open??? Exactly what do crackers use to get into a
> Win98 system? I even have my NetBios ports closed... they can't even see my
> machine ID or workgroup ID (according to several security check sites).
>
> So how, exactly, can a cracker get into my system when all, and I do mean all,
> my ports are closed?

Okay...  without employing any sort of blocking/detection technology...you are
open to infinate tries on your operating system, since that is all you have
protecting you. ...ok nice you run Netscape  4.7 so Internet exploder's out of the
question along with outlook exploits (common entry means). The very worst part of
this is you have absolutely no way of knowing who's trying what....and sooner or
later you are going to run something that changes the way things are setup in your
machine and grant someone the access they want. Even with a state of the art
firewall, all patches top antivirus software to take a posture of ..."I'm 100%
secure from anything" is foolish....and sooner or later someone will prove you
quite wrong.  Have you checked your system against webtrends Security Analyzer? or
the other 'online' web based checks? until you can walk away with a clean scan
report, dont think you are beyond being penetrated.


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