Message from discussion Port 28960

From: "John C. Harris, MPA" <f...@invalid.org>
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Subject: Re: Port 28960
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:25:28 -0400
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In my wildest imagination I cannot understand why you would allow an
employee to use company resources for personal gaming. Talk about ASKING for
trouble. Keep the ports closed and don't tax your system any more than you
have to. It would be hard to explain why work cannot be accomplished because
someone was up all night playing UNREAL TOURNAMENT.


"Anthony Smith" <anth...@peconet.com> wrote in message
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> Good Afternoon Everyone,
>
> We are a small office here, less than 25 workstations. We're running
> SBS2000, using Exchange and SQL Server for office applications.  Our
normal
> operating hours are from 8am-5pm.
> An employee wants to use our server, somehow as a game server port after
> hours.
> All I have to do is open up port 28960 for him and he should be able to do
> it.
> Any comments about this? I'm not sure if I want to do this, if it's safe
or
> not. But also I'm curious if there is any other things I can expect by
> opening up that port? Wondering if that's a port hackers like to use also.
> I have all ports closed but the ones I need, I think it's less than 5 I
have
> open.
>
> Thanks for your help and advice.
>
> Sincerely,
> Anthony Smith
>
> In God We Trust!
>
>
>