9 Dec
2002
9 Dec
'02
9:37 a.m.
Right. The problem (and the point I was making) is that "secure" is context-dependent. In some sense, the easy way to "secure" machines is to pull the network jack. That's a serious DoS attack on yourself.
at Monday, December 09, 2002 4:29 AM, Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> was seen to say: perhaps a portscanner, coupled to some sort of process scanner (loaded with the common windows-based services, especially ones that come bundled) and a simple checkbox list that lists all the services, what they are (in relatively simple english) and allows the user to turn them back on (defaulting to off) ? Just sticking to windows would cover 95% of the potential users (if not more) and make the disk much simpler to write.