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Re: Windows File Sharing: Facing The Mystery

said by ghost16825 See Profile:

Great article. But just one point I'd like to make which I didn't see. Sure, Steve Gibson sensationalises things and has little in the way of helpful factual information. But the main reason why these services are dangerous, is usually not for their file enumeration ability nor their file sharing capabilities. It's the fact that they are (often by default) a running service with open ports as a consequence - which by itself implies that they will inevitably be vulnerable to buffer overflows from certain created input.
Definitely. The focus here, however, was to say on the networking side of things with a slant towards security. In other words, I wanted to discuss the file sharing technologies themselves and not go into the much larger subject of securing a Windows machine in a more general sense.

I was going to go down that path, but it would have become much more than a couple hours woth of article in a hurry. I wrote most of this while watching some little Panda movie on T.V. with my girlfriend. That wouldn't be possible if I had expanded the scope any. Thanks for the comments though; I see what you mean.
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