To: T.J. Mcmillen
  Re: Re: Pro-active firewall?
  By: T.J. Mcmillen to Shurato on Wed Aug 07 2024 03:56 pm

 > From Newsgroup: micronet.bbs
 >
 > S> What would you suggest for Win32 for the latter?  I've got Bitdefender
 > S> running, but I've been using the Windows firewall.  I have some services
 > S> under Win64 and some under Linux.  Win64 is running the Windows Firewall
 > S> wit
 >
 > Are you doing this just for fun or what?   I don't even think I have the
 > firewall turned on the BBS machine.  I don't see the point.   My RGBOT

You should really turn on something, dude.
When those windows exploits got leaked I had a vm on the server running, but it
wasn't doing anything and not accepting connections. It was a blank install of
win7.

I was lazy and turned off the firewall because I didn't want to dick around with
permissions for a ftp server i was going to run on it temporarily to xfer files.

They used those exploits and put ransomeware on it and did the little txt file
on the desktop where i had to send them money to a bitcoin address.

With windows firewall up, they wouldn't be able to do that.  My other win7 vms
were fine.
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