Re: Mediaone Hacker

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From: George Marengo
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 00:00

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On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 06:54:19 GMT, satch@concentric.hormel42.net
(Satch) wrote:

>[posted and mailed]
>
>Allegedly riprock@kscable.com (Riprock)  said on 16 Dec 1999 in
><3859D990.A2ECB8E4@kscable.com> the following: 
>
>>Now you say I'm open to infinite tries... but as long as all ports are
>>closed they won't get in, correct? Now I do realize that installing and
>>removing software will change machine configs and may open previously
>>closed ports so I always check again if I've added/removed software.
>>
>>What other ways, besides ports and trojan-types (BO), smtp, nntp, and
>>all the other things Gibson and HackerWhacker check for, do
>>hackers/crackers use to infiltrate?
>
>In a Unix system I can get a report of all open ports, especially ports 
>listening for connections.  I'm not aware of any tool in the Windows 
>environment for doing this, or anything in the WinSock API that would let 
>me write a tool to do this.

Have you tried Netstat -a ?

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From: George Marengo <gmarengo@home.com>
Subject: Re: Mediaone Hacker
Date: 1999/12/18
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