Sadie
Mon Jun 07 21:52:24 CDT 2004
Try reading this guide as a gentle introduction.It will
assist you in closing down extraneous services (assuming
you are reasonably certain that you are not using them.)
You are quite sensible not to mess about in the registry
until you are confident of what you are doing.
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm
Sadie
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>jbiddlew wrote:
> > Nessus tells me to close ports on my XPHE and
W3K3 boxes, including specificying registry settings to
do so. I am a newbie to the registry. Can anyone point
me to a quality document/book for learning how the
registry works and how to use it, AND how to close/open
TCP/UDP ports, and disable/enable associated services on
XPHE and W2K3 machines? Thanks!
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> ----- g-w wrote: -----
> Are you using a firewall? If not, why not? Firewalls
will stop any
> incoming or outgoing packts unless you tell the
firewall to allow the
> application to send and receive packets.
Unsolicited Internet packets
> will be rejected. Ports will be open when the
applications need them and
> closed when they are closed.
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> g-w
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>jbiddlew wrote:
>yes, am using a perimiter firewall and hostbased
firewalls that are "application aware". But firewalls
can be hacked and malware can enter by other means, so
I'd like to shut down unnecessary ports. There must be a
tool out there to close Windows TCP/UDP ports. Should I
have to be mucking around with the registry to close
ports? Thanks in advance for your advice.
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