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WinXP's Firewall shot dead by three lines of VBScript!

[via Kayodeok]
Those 3 lines of VBScript simply disable XP Firewall.
YES! THREE!

Set objFirewall = CreateObject("HNetCfg.FwMgr")
Set objPolicy = objFirewall.LocalPolicy.CurrentProfile
objPolicy.FirewallEnabled = FALSE

According to the article, they must be executed locally to be efficient. But I think it will be a matter of days (hours?) until a nasty hacker will find out the way to execute them remotely. Hmmmm...
Worms Party Time!

Please set a firewall on your machine. Now !

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20 Nov. 2004 - 15:52, par RANDOM

Ok thats great...but...how do you set a port to not be globally open but to be open to only your network instead still using vb scripting???

20 Nov. 2004 - 16:18, par kNo'

sorry, I don't understand your question.
The fact is: if you have Windows XP connected to the internet, and if by any chance you come to a page with those three lines of vbscript embedded in it, your XP default firewall will be disabled.
My advice: google a real trusty performant firewall on your machine instead of using this crap.

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