Re: Port 445 issues (was: Port 80 Issues)

I'm just waiting for hakerz to finally figure out that having the port number a hash of host address will effectively make port-based "notch" filtering useless. Usin On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:

Blocking ports in the core doesn't stop stuff from spreading. There are too many alternate paths in the core for systems to get infected through. In reality, backbones dropped 1434 packets as a traffic management practice (excessive traffic), not as a security management practice (protecting users).