Shares open on network without my consent

[Elburn]

Hi,

Here on my college network, I have no open shares on my computer.

One day I decided to check on this by looking at workgroup computers. I found mine, and double clicked, and two things came up: "Printers and Faxes" and "Schedueled Tasks."

I have ZA running, and I thought it would do that only because it was me connecting to myself... but I had my roommate do it, and he got those two things too.

Now it seems to me that there needs to be a proper password and stuff to make a new scheduled task, but I'm not so sure about the printer.

Is there a way I can prevent these from showing up on the network like that?

-Stephen

[PresterJohn]

what OS are you running?

you could always turn off the scheduler or remove the print share but if you are on the college network, i would recommend that you raise the trusted zone security setting in ZA to HIGH. (i'm assuming you designated the local subnet as a trusted zone). the internet zone setting should already be at High.

[vass0922]

Turn off file and print sharing on the network connection

He will probably also be able to do \\yourip\C$ if you're on win9x/ME

[PresterJohn]

>Turn off file and print sharing on the network connection

less than optimal advice because it doesn't address the primary problem...ie. if his roomate can see those resources, his firewall settings are allowing rpc (possibly netbios) and other exploitable packets thru.

which means if someone knows what to do, they can do all sorts of mischief on his machine, remotely.

[Agent_Embryo]

Originally posted by vass0922

He will probably also be able to do \\yourip\C$ if you're on win9x/ME

He will most likely be able to do that on WinXP/2k/NT as well. If he had the admin password. Not sure what 9x does with that though...

How is ya vass? I is drunk.

[Elburn]

I'm on XP pro ( I can't believe I forgot to put that...)

Well, I turned off the task scheduler and disabled the file/print sharing. I can no longer see my computer on the workgroup screen.

Is this a victory?

-Stephen

Edit- I also have my ZA settings so that everything is on 'high.'

Also, I've used Mr. Gibson's DCOM and I should have the RPC taken care of, should being the important word.