Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: quick and dirty http page server

turned-on by default is not a good thing. Webservers require careful and thoughtful configuration before allowing them to expose your computer network to the world. This is the major cause of Windows security flaws (RPC is, by default, turned-on and trusts everything)

Update: My issue with RPC isn't that it's turned on ... it's that it's too trusting. And, it's not the only thing that's turned on by default in Windows that shouldn't be. In fact, it's almost impossible to turn some of the stuff off. It's not like Windows is well-documented or anything ... </rant>

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: quick and dirty http page server by tbone1 (Monsignor) on Jan 16, 2004 at 15:19 UTC
This may be an urban legend, but I've heard that if you turn off RPC, Windows can't reboot. I only use Windows at work, and then mostly as a dumb terminal to get to the Unix boxes, so I have no idea if this is true. I'm not about to find out by doing it, either, because I don't need the MCSEs hitting me with The Big Foam Cluebat. Still, I've heard it a few times, and from different sources, so I'd have to wonder if it might not be true. -- tbone1 And remember, if he succeeds, so what. - Chick McGee	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: quick and dirty http page server by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Jan 16, 2004 at 15:23 UTC
This isn't an urban legend. I once tried to turn it off in a fresh Win2k install and I had to do another fresh install. (Not like I needed that Saturday or anything ...) ------ We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age. Please remember that I'm crufty and crochety. All opinions are purely mine and all code is untested, unless otherwise specified.	[reply]