From: Aaron Lewis (aaronadldatacomm.net)
Date: Fri Aug 13 2004 - 10:28:18 CDT

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Agreed. I would say most email viruses / worms enter a system due to a user
who is so curious they have to open it. Educating the users and having them
understand the problem and the solutions is very key in maintaining a sound
environment. Blocking some outgoing traffic of well known threats at the
border device can help too.

I know Admins at the local government level who don't run AV or patch their
systems because they have a firewall and they think nothing can get to them.
The worst part is the Admin doesn't know anything about networking and the
firewall setup was outsourced and hasn't been touched since install.

Yes I said government
ADL

-----Original Message-----
From: MacLeonard Starkey [mailto:macleonardsofthome.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 3:49 AM
To: focus-mssecurityfocus.com
Subject: Re: most avtive attack type

Much of what I am currently seeing are email based vectors,

as such, they rely either on holes in the client software which allows
immediate execution of attachments, or the human factor.

Make sure you educate your users, or all the firewalling and patching in
the world won't help you

regards,

Macca

first last wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I was wondering what the most common type of attack to expect to get hit
> with over a network is.
> I will be protecting a MS based network.
>
>
> The other thing i was thinking is in this senerao what type of attacks
> should you be watching out for?
>
> senerao: Small TCP/IP network (sub 6 pcs) All have the latest MS client
> or server OSes fully patched.
> IPSec running as a firewall, all trafic monitered/logged, services
> configured (and disabled) 1 Software router, 1 Hardware router
> (firewall running on each) im thinking thats about it.
>
> Thanks for the help it is greatly apricated
>
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