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From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: "'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com '" <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: Windows XP SP2 and Firewall
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 16:33:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403021726540.11345@odoaker.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9920848EF398D311BDC400508BF339F901AAD281@ldnisp14.evolution.net>

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Stuart Adamson wrote:

> What happens when X crashes? 

No running service, no vulnerability, no problem. I'm just talking about
opening one single port.

> We *have* to restore the firewall in this case.  

> I *think* we can catch this case using SEH - but we can't compile
> using gcc then...

> Maybe we need a wrapper script when runs "disable firewall", "run X",
> "enable firewall".  Works well (until the use kills the wrapper script...)

I'll play with the test program I've written. Maybe this will get an simple 
commandline interface for configuring ICF. 

But first I have to find an WinXP with installed ICF anywhere. Win2k did 
not have it and the plain XP box (no SPs) here hasn't it either.

bye
	ago
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-02 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-02 14:58 Stuart Adamson
2004-03-02 15:26 ` Harold L Hunt II
2004-03-02 16:33 ` Alexander Gottwald [this message]
2004-03-02 22:20   ` Elliott Wilcoxon
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-02 10:19 Alexander Gottwald
2004-03-02 11:03 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-03-02 15:21   ` Harold L Hunt II

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