In message <20170418194105.06929a69@ime1.iment.local>, Paul Kosinski writes: > I would think that a Internet-connected box that is severely > compromised (e.g., has malware running with maximal privileges) is > about as bad as having the LAN that the box is on connected to the > Internet directly (without a Firewall etc.). > > In particular, such a box could be remote controlled to attack XP in > whatever way XP is vulnerable to attacks from the Internet at large.
Which have always been very few after Microsoft enabled the on machine firewall by default in SP2. Most of the problem have been with applications installed on XP machines and running as Administrator not the OS itself. IE is a application as far as I am concerned. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
