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My ISP is NetLink in New Zealand, so I checked with them the authenticity of
the Daniel Ayers of NetLink quoted warning about the dangers of accessing
the Internet using Windows 95 with file sharing enabled over a network.
A number of you have wondered whether it was just another hoax. Well,
Daniel is a real person, the issue is for real, and his confirmation of this
follows.
I chatted to him over the phone. His advice was to disable file sharing
while using the Internet, but to at least set passwords for file sharing
over the network. He confirmed that it was a good idea to visit the
rootshell site (http://www.rootshell.com/) and check that it couldn't see
your files. He also confirmed that using a protocol other than TCP/IP for
your network was no protection.
Daniel's slant was not that Windows 95 was seriously flawed, but that people
could naively set it up in a way that left them vulnerable and that they
needed to be aware of the danger.
Paul Barnes
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Ayers [mailto:daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, 24 July 1998 13:05
To: pbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Fw: Internet security (fwd)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 17:01:56 +1200 (NZST)
From: Daniel Ayers <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: pbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Fw: Internet security
> Is this for real - it quotes a Daniel Ayers of NetLink?
Yep, its for real.
Daniel.
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Daniel Ayers, B.Sc (Hons), M.Sc Email:
daniel.ayers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Network Security Specialist DDI Phone: +64-4-916-5622
Netlink Fax: +64-4-916-5300
23 Waring Taylor St, PO Box 5358 Mobile: +64-21-387-334
Wellington, New Zealand URL: http://www.netlink.co.nz
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