From: Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (bugtraqplanetcobalt.net)
Date: Mon Jun 28 2004 - 19:57:17 CDT

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On 2004-06-28 David Harper wrote:
> I'd like to get input from the list on any other sections to include
> on the web site. What do you see as the most glaring gaps in end-user
> knowledge? What information, tools, links, etc., would best enable
> them to secure their systems easily against the most common threats?

Services. A lot of the services Windows provides in its default
configuration don't need to be accessible from outside the computer. A
friend of mine wrote a small tool to ease the process of disabling/
reconfiguring those services [1] (sorry, momentarily the page is just in
german, an english version will probably be up in a few days). The tool
can be used to configure a computer for one of the following two
scenarios:

- standalone computers with dialup-/cable-/whatever-Internet-connection
- computers in a local (Windows-)network, that need file- and printer-
  sharing

[1] http://www.dingens.org/

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers

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