Walter
Thu Sep 16 01:16:36 CDT 2004
Merely by enabling FP extensions you do not incur a security risk. You can
even enable FP extensions without being connected to the internet.
Only when you use the IIS as a server to publish web content to the
Internet, with or without FP extensions, will you need to take security
precautions. I use Zone Alarm plus the Win Xp firewall and never had a
problem.
With IIS running, make sure that your computer is still in stealth mode.
Start your IIS and then check your ports on:
http://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2
I am not an expert, though. Visit the FP newsgroup.
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Walter
The Happy Iconoclast www.rationality.net
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"G" <zz@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:PpY1d.593681$Gx4.55590@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> Barry wrote:
>> If I enable front page extensions, is there any security risks?
>> thanks
> On an IIS server? Which Windows and which IIS? Anytime you allow a visitor
> to run code from a file on the server there may be a buffer overrun
> possibility.
>
> g-w