Guest Flick Olmsford Posted June 30, 2008 Posted June 30, 2008 How much of a risk is bearshare to our system. A few of our users like it but I have questions. We have one Windows Server 2003 and 50+ XP workstations, 5-10 Windows 98SE Can hackers use it to break into / steal info from our system? Can someone break into our network if someone is not logged on? Can someone navigate wherever they want in our network or are they locked into one directory? Can people use it to install spyware / malware /etc? Is there a risk of copywrite violation? Thanks in advance. Flick Quote
Guest Newell White Posted June 30, 2008 Posted June 30, 2008 "Flick Olmsford" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > How much of a risk is bearshare to our system. A few of our users like it > but I have questions. We have one Windows Server 2003 and 50+ XP > workstations, 5-10 Windows 98SE > > Can hackers use it to break into / steal info from our system? > Can someone break into our network if someone is not logged on? > Can someone navigate wherever they want in our network or are they locked > into one directory? > Can people use it to install spyware / malware /etc? > Is there a risk of copywrite violation? > > > Thanks in advance. > Flick > > </span> The technical answer to all those questions is possibly. And as the network admin you should: 1) Make sure there is a properly configured hardware firewall between your broadband router(s) and the rest of the network. 2) Ensure that none of your users are Administrators of their own local machine. 3) Change the Domain Administrator password to a good long one. 4) Replace the win98 machines tomorrow - they can never be secured. 5) Remind staff who pays for the computers and access to the web. Wipe all non-work software from the machines and make it a violation of employment terms and conditions for vanilla users to install any software on company machines. Sure it is 'nice' to download 'free' music and listen to it in work hours. But most machines that have Limewire or Kazaa on them end up needing a brain-wipe because they can never be sanitised by ordinary malware removal programs. ----- Regards, Newell White Quote
Guest PA Bear [MS MVP] Posted June 30, 2008 Posted June 30, 2008 Good and Bad P2P Programs: http://malwareremoval.com/p2pindex.php P2P file sharing: Anticipate the risks... http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/...ilesharing.mspx A1. Possibly. A2. Possibly. A3. Possibly. A4. Most definitely! A5. Yes. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ Flick Olmsford wrote:<span style="color:blue"> > How much of a risk is bearshare to our system. A few of our users like it > but I have questions. We have one Windows Server 2003 and 50+ XP > workstations, 5-10 Windows 98SE > > Can hackers use it to break into / steal info from our system? > Can someone break into our network if someone is not logged on? > Can someone navigate wherever they want in our network or are they locked > into one directory? > Can people use it to install spyware / malware /etc? > Is there a risk of copywrite violation? > > > Thanks in advance. > Flick </span> Quote
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