full-disclosure - Odd Behavior - Windows Messenger Service

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From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Schmehl, Paul L)
Subject: Odd Behavior - Windows Messenger Service

> -----Original Message-----
> From: morning_wood [mailto:se_cur_ity@...mail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 5:17 PM
> To: dos cerveza; full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Odd Behavior - Windows 
> Messenger Service
> 
> imho it is iresponsible default behaivor for a workstation OS 
> to allow remote resources / services / enumeration before any 
> interactive user or administrative login.
> 
I guess you'd better dump Unix then.  Have you ever watched the screen
on a Unix box while it's booting?  Have you not noticed things like
sendmail, sshd, crond, etc. starting up?

It'll be a sad day when someone has to login to the console before a
server can start doing its work. :-)

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/