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Old 01-22-2008, 02:06 AM
halimtan
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Default Re: win2000 - 1000s of ports opened

On Jan 22, 10:34*am, "Sebastian G." <se...@seppig.de> wrote:
> halimtan wrote:
> > On Jan 22, 8:23 am, "Sebastian G." <se...@seppig.de> wrote:
> >> Even further, it seems like you're abusing MSIE as a webbrowser. Now that's
> >> clearly a sign of total resignation.

>
> > Dear Sebastian, evidently you know much more than I do. In what way am
> > I abusing MSIE as a webbrowser?

>
> Just to remind, one of your posting's headers:
>
> > X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;
> > * *SV1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)

>
> Unless you're faking headers for no obvious reasons, it looks like you're
> posting through Google Groups, using MSIE as a webbrowser. Google Groups is
> a website on the internet, which is an untrustworthy network. MSIE, on the
> other hand, is only supposed to be used on a trusted network, otherwise it's
> trivially insecure.
>
> Thus, you seem to abusing it for something that it's clearly unsuitable for.


Wow. You are exactly right in describing how I posted. And I didnt
even know I was abusing something. At the risk of sounding stupid,
whats the correct way to post this?

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