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Re: Port 28960

Anthony Smith <anth...@peconet.com>

(smile) you're funny.  Do you have any info on Port 28960? If opening it up
would be good or bad?

"John C. Harris, MPA" <f...@invalid.org> wrote in message
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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!