[70192] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: FW: Worms versus Bots
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Nelson)
Tue May 4 18:26:28 2004
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 18:26:01 -0400
To: "Smith, Donald" <Donald.Smith@qwest.com>,
Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: Rob Nelson <ronelson@vt.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <2D00AD0E4D36D411BD300008C786E42412B2654B@denntex021.ad.qin
tra.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>The goal of this document is help new XP users survive long enough to do
>their updates.
>Many of them cant/wont put up acls/nat/firewalls ... but if they follow
>the steps listed they have a better chance of
>successfully downloading and updating their new machine then they will
>have with OUT these steps.
>It is not meant as a complete XP hardening document. There are lots of
>documents that discuss in detail how to harden
>windows (xp,nt,2k...).
If the person doesn't continue to do acls/nat/firewalls, they'll just get
infected after the next hole is discovered. And yes, there are plenty of
holes that a firewall/nat box won't fix. Still, better than the user only
doing Windows Update on the day of install and never having a firewall...
Rob Nelson
ronelson@vt.edu
