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Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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Win2K security = 0
Granted I'm no MCSE, but...
All I did... I loaded Win 2K on an empty machine. I did a Windows Update and retrieved and applied all the patches. I set a pretty strong Administrator password, and set up requiring ctrl-alt-del to log in. I set up one non-Admin user for FTP access. I started IIS and FTP. I did development work on the box for three weeks. I notice some odd unexpected inbound traffic. Check it out and indeed, the box has been cracked. Somebody's put some warez into the non-Admin user's FTP section. Now, granted FTP uses plain-text passwords, and granted I don't use a hardware firewall here, and granted a whole bunch of other stuff. But three weeks! Come on! |
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