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Subject: Re: FW: PC Take-Over -- reply
From: cheer @ isisph . com (Christopher D. Heer)
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 95 08:15:34 PST
To: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM

At 11:19 AM 1/10/95, & Purshottam wrote:
>Wfw running machines can act as file servers using the microsoft
>remote file system. Many wfw users are unaware of this, and leave all
>their paritions workgroup accessible.

This is scary, too, because WFW can use any protocol -- including TCP/IP --
as its own.  I don't know if you still can, but you used to be able to
mount Microsoft's ftp server as a WFW drive over the Internet. . . :(

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