BIND 9 windows XP builds

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Wed Apr 19 00:24:33 UTC 2017


In message <20170418194105.06929a69 at 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
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