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i have windows xp and being as telnet is a windows function i think this is the right place to put it, the question i have is how do i disable telnet , as its not something i need and have read numorus articles on how it can be a big sucurity vunrulbilty
Hi
First of all: telnet (server and client) are tools, available
for any operating system. Anyway,your question might
involve two layers (...if you now think of OSI, you are a
geek :D ):
First, the telnet-server. Windows XP Pro comes with
a telnet service[1], which is set to manual or disabled
(depends on the SP). You can manually disable
the service:
This eliminates the standard telnet service, therefore thereCode:Start -> Run -> services.msc
Go to "Telnet" -> Properties -> Disable
is no server listening on port 23.
Second, if a server of any kind (or most kind) is running on
your machine, the telnet-client can be used to connect to
it (you can "watch" web-pages using telnet, you can "send"
emails using telnet). If some kind of server is misconfigured,
telnet can be used to perform malicious actions - I think, this
is what you have read.
However, telnet is just one tool out of a many to do so. The
"solution" is to harden your box, ie patch the OS, patch the
applications, configure a firewall properly, disable services
which are not needed etc. There is a variety of tutorials
here on AO[2,3]
Cheers
[1] http://www.theeldergeek.com/telnet.htm
[2] e.g. http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=266327
[3] e.g. http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=264811 :)
i checked following the instructions you gave me, and telnet is disabled , i did the trojan scan at sygates sucurity site http://scan.sygate.com/trojanscan.html (sygate personal firewall pro is my firewall), and port 23 (the port telnet runs on) is still open so gonna do some investigating later today , not sure that the subject this conversation is drifting into nesscicarly fits into this catigory , but if you could p.m me with some possiblitys and suggestions while i check this out ,it would be most helpful ,ty for all your help,im running windows xp pro with sp2 ,which i just read automatically disables telnet when installed,sorry for the bad spelling but for some reason the spell check isnt working well in here
Run a netstat -ao from the command line and look for something that is :23. Get the PID for this process and it will tell you what is open on that port. If its not listed there, then its not listening.
ok ty checked and its not listed