RE: SP2 and NMAP

[Frank Knobbe <frank () knobbe us>]

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 11:21, Castigliola, Angelo wrote:
> Microsoft told Fyodor the reason they disabled raw sockets in SP2 was:
>
> "We have removed support for TCP sends over RAW sockets in SP2. We
> surveyed applications and found the only apps using this on XP were
> people writing attack tools."


Silly thing to say anyway. Even if raw sockets are no longer available,
attack tools can (and some do) still use their own IP stacks
(libpcap/libdnet/etc). Unless MS starts to filter calls on the network
driver layer, attack tools will still work.

Nicely shows Microsoft's lack of understanding in this area though.

Regards,
Frank

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