[Full-Disclosure] TCP Port 42 port scans? What the heck over...

[Dave Aitel]

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><lots of good and valid reasons elided>
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>The problem with all your reasons is that they have an underlying assumption
>that people have enough clue to realize things like "they don't need it",
>or "they don't need more than one or two".  I'm however convinced that for
>each network admin out there who understands there's times to run WINS and
>times not to use it, there's at least 5 or 10 who said "ooh shiny" and clicked
>on the button to install it...
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>And remember that those sheep can't say "firewall".. ;)
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And also WINS is default in many situations. Such as Windows 2003 SBS. 
Installed an Exchange server lately?


-dave



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