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IM, a big, fat target

Discussion in 'Security and Privacy' started by charlesvar, 2005/12/28.

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    charlesvar

    charlesvar Inactive Alumni Thread Starter

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    http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1904984,00.asp

    Regards - Charles
     
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    Thank you Charles.

    Now I have more resaon than ever to clamp down on the neighbor kid using IM on one of our machines.

    The last time she was on it I caught her clicking on anything and everything and several people on a the same time. I happened to look as I went by and she was about to click on a file contained in a message. VERY LOUDLY I said NO !!!

    Now I hear that both her and her family are ticked off at me. I just simply replied. "TOUGH !!. She is using one of my machines."

    BTW. After one of her sessions AVG did pick up and clean up a possible virus.

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    charlesvar Inactive Alumni Thread Starter

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    Hi BB,

    Yeah, it always ticks me off when people have a lackadaisical attitude towards security, especially with other's systems :rolleyes:

    Regards - Charles
     
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    Does anyone know how/if file transfer could be disabled via firewalls / 3rd party tools ... my interest would be for MS Messenger ... and my 4 teenagers. I have my router "Blocking" their network address for the following file types, .bat, .exe, .msi, .pif, .scr, .vbs, .zip (allowing media files).
     
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    yes, p2p apps such as messenger use specific ports. Just setup the router port forwarding to forward all requests for the p2p ports to non-existant addresses, e.g. it is very unlikely that any comp on the network will be assigned an address of 192.168.1.250, so send all those requests to that ip.

    examples:

    Gnutella 6346 6347 (udp tcp)
    Kazaa 1214 (udp)
    IRC 6667
    Napster 8888
    MSN 11295, 14753 (utp) 15203, 7760 (tcp)

    http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/app_port_list.htm
     
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    Thanks TonyT
    MSN 11295, 14753 (utp) 15203, 7760 (tcp)

    Just want to disable file transfer within MS Messenger. Would not "forwarding" MS Messenger to a black hole also take out "chat" features?
    "Me thinks the kids would protest ". ;)
     
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