September 24, 2004





What’s best: block a port or lets Windows Automatic Updates go on?

 

This is another thing that I ear from the company mentioned in this story. This time, they block all ports, except 80 and few others. Blocking all ports mean the Windows Automatic Updates program’s port too. What do you think is best, blocking a random port or download and automatically install windows patch in your park of about 100 computers? It seems that it’s not every body that learns from experience. After being infected by MyDoom and some other virus, the holes are always open. They will not if they don’t change their mentalities and do a review of their security policies (if they have some).

 

The purpose of this post is just to give you another example of what companies can do. This is not an isolated case. I’ll come back with some stats for you this weekend.


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