March 30, 2001
Share Sniffer: Who needs Napster when you have Windows?
Share Sniffer: Who needs Napster when you have Windows?
The hole is a networking protocol called "NetBIOS," and if you don't know it's there -- or, say, if you've inadvertently instructed it to open your computer to the world -- it's like a gaping maw. NetBIOS allows any number of computer users to make all or part of their system visible to others, which entails little more than checking a box that says, literally, "I want to be able to give others access to my files."
Posted by rshah at March 30, 2001 12:00 PM