From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 18 00:42:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA13690 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:42:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA13684 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:42:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id JAA15591; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 09:35:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 09:35:33 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: 026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca (Michael Richards), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why don't winblows program have buffer overruns? References: <199808170244.UAA18362@lariat.lariat.org> <199808171851.MAA24710@lariat.lariat.org> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 18 Aug 1998 09:35:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: Brett Glass's message of "Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:50:04 -0600" Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id AAA13686 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass writes: > At 06:30 PM 8/17/98 +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > >This is getting off-topic, but the bug is in the TCP/IP stack, not the > >NetBIOS code. The only reason WinNuke uses port 139 (the netbios-ssn > >port) is that you're pretty sure there'll be someone listening there. > I don't turn on NetBIOS on any Windows machine I use or administer. In > fact, about the only thing they'll respond to is a ping. You're not an average Winblows luser. Now let's please keep this thread off security. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message