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pls explain /PIPE/winreg
hi freinds
i am using WinXP....
today when i opened my looked for open files on PC remotely (ie for copying, which i have shared) i saw a connection which has opened a file named /PIPE/winreg with read+write permission ... i havent ever allowed write permissions on my shared folders...the snapshot is attached...
pls explain this.
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Hi NullDevice,
AFAIK "pipes" are normal in Windows NT family systems, which would include XP. They are to do with the Inter Process Communications System (IPC), and could be a source of a security exploit, at least in NT.
Please have a look at: http://www.giac.org/practical/Pankaj_Jawale.doc
This relates to securing NT systems, but may have some relevance, and certainly be of interest to others here who are using NT?
Cheers
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/PIPE/Winreg is a named pipe and, as nihil said, are used for IPC.
More info about named pipes can be found here on the MSDN site.