Re: Hacking attempts from Sweden.

[Ed Wilts <ewilts ewilts org>]

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 12:01:54AM +0100, linux power wrote:
> 
> If yo have a firewall rember to close the netbios ports 137-139 .

The default rule for any firewall should always to block *everything*.
Then open up only those ports that you absolutely need and then if you
can, restrict them to certain source addresses.

Many major ISPs here in the USA block 137-139 by default.  I couldn't
open it if I wanted to (and I certainly don't).

        .../Ed

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