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Binding Windows Services to Specific Addresses Only May 03 2008 11:13PM Christian Koerner (misk gmx net) (4 replies) RE: Binding Windows Services to Specific Addresses Only May 09 2008 02:43PM Maxime Ducharme (mducharme cybergeneration com) RE: Binding Windows Services to Specific Addresses Only May 06 2008 08:24AM Davies, Alan (GE Money) (AlanJ Davies ge com) Re: Binding Windows Services to Specific Addresses Only May 05 2008 03:07PM Ali, Saqib (docbook xml gmail com) |
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> When it comes to Windows hardening and in specific restricting
> Windows' services, the only suggestions that I've found so far are:
> *) disable unnecessary services
> *) restrict network access through packet filtering
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> What else can be done and isn't it possible to bind Windows' services
> to a specific address/interface, e.g. LAN.
AFAIK, there is no general mechanism to bind services to specific
interfaces or addresses - I know the Services API doesn't have any
such thing. Instead, the application itself must choose to provide a
mechanism for this (which is normally exposed in a GUI or registry entry).
Most don't.
Steve
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