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November 16th, 2002, 09:56 PM
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Closing the backdoor on NetBIOS
I did some research recently and found out about NetBIOS. Apparently this software created by microsoft leaves your computer vunerable to hackers online. I have decided to remove what they call "NetBIOS to TCP/IP binding" from my computer and have noticed through my firewall software (Outpost), that not only have my open ports dropped significantly, but the Attack Detection has basically quieted down dramatically as well. The whole reason I did this was I noticed that Outpost treated these NetBIOS connection attempts as possible attacks. I wondered why this was happening and hence, did the research. It almost seems that NetBIOS is useless unless you are using a LAN/WAN scenario. Is this true?
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