Re: Port 445 issues (was: Port 80 Issues)

[Vadim Antonov <avg () kotovnik com>]

I'm just waiting for hakerz to finally figure out that having the port
number a hash of host address will effectively make port-based 
"notch" filtering useless. Usin


On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:
 
> Blocking ports in the core doesn't stop stuff from spreading.  There are
> too many alternate paths in the core for systems to get infected through.
> In reality, backbones dropped 1434 packets as a traffic management practice
> (excessive traffic), not as a security management practice (protecting
> users).