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File and Printer Sharing Insecure in XP SP2

Posted by michael on from the old-dogs-learn-new-tricks dept.

ProKras writes "German magazine PC-Welt has discovered a major security flaw in Windows XP SP2 when installing over SP1. The article says that 'with a certain configuration, your file and printer sharing data are visible worldwide, despite an activated Firewall.' The magazine claims they were 'able to discover private documents on easily accessible computers on the Internet' and that the configuration is fairly common."

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  1. Re:People are stupid. by NanoGator · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "someone is trying to be sensationalist and not thinking about things."

    Heh. The Register ran a story about how Internet Explorer was being used at an airport and it crashed bringing the whole place down. Their evidence of this was a picture somebody took of a display showing IE saying "page not found". I submitted the story under the headline "New Exploit Prevents IE from Finding Web Pages when Internet Connection is Broken". I don't think the Slashdot editors were amused.

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  2. So? by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why is this deemed worthy of a slashdot thread? I mean, it's not like security flaws haven't been discovered in Windows before...

  3. Re:Time for M$ to put its money where its mouth is by haruchai · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, well, it seems that it's not ONLY posts that are Linux-negative that get modded down. The M$ofties appear to give as good as they get.
    And that saying a lot.

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