Paradox over internet

#11

Hi!

I have a different opinion.

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By enabling your operating system services to be accessed over the
internet, you also enable them to be used by hackers to access

For Netbios, hackers can use it like normal users. If they have login
(yser name) and passwords. If not, they will not be able to enter.

Quote:

and take control of your computer.

Even by having a login/password, nobody will be able to exceed
permissions NTFS ; with NetBios, it's impossible to take control of a
computer.
It is exactly similar which in a local area network, safety in force on
the server is dominating.

Quote:

That is the reason most users that want to have access via the
internet use VPN

No. The true reason is that editors of VPN have have excellents sales
engineers and marketters

Quote:

The real questions you need to ask is what risk am I prepared to take
to expose my operating system to the network and hackers?

IMHO, not to know to distinguish the true risks from the supposed risks
is a true risk.

For 3 years, I have two computers, connected permanently to Internet,
with NETBIOS activated. There never was no successful intrusion. And
yet, there are 100 attempts per hour!

@-salutations

Michel Claveau

#12

Hi!

If you want try, use this command-line :

net use P: \\213.186.37.221\TESTNB abcd /USER:utemp

Then, launch Paradox, go on workingdir P:\ and open the table
Villes.db
Warning : if you want test from several cpu (or at the same time as
other users), you must define NetDir on P:\ ; but it's a bit more slow.

I will delete this user ('utemp') in the begin 2008 ; you have some
time for test.

@-salutations

Michel Claveau

#13

Thanks for the feedback Michael. Good information and I'll have to look
closer.

Rick

"Méta-MCI (MVP)" <enleverlesX.XmcX (AT) XmclaveauX (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

Hi!

I have a different opinion.

By enabling your operating system services to be accessed over the
internet, you also enable them to be used by hackers to access

For Netbios, hackers can use it like normal users. If they have login
(yser name) and passwords. If not, they will not be able to enter.

and take control of your computer.

Even by having a login/password, nobody will be able to exceed permissions
NTFS ; with NetBios, it's impossible to take control of a computer.
It is exactly similar which in a local area network, safety in force on
the server is dominating.

That is the reason most users that want to have access via the internet
use VPN

No. The true reason is that editors of VPN have have excellents sales
engineers and marketters

The real questions you need to ask is what risk am I prepared to take to
expose my operating system to the network and hackers?

IMHO, not to know to distinguish the true risks from the supposed risks is
a true risk.

For 3 years, I have two computers, connected permanently to Internet, with
NETBIOS activated. There never was no successful intrusion. And yet, there
are 100 attempts per hour!

@-salutations

Michel Claveau

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