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| | Experts split on Port 445 security risk - Computerworld |
 | | Port 445 has already been used by so many other attacks, including the Sasser and Nimda worms, that even if a new worm were to be created, it would probably not change things, according to Russ Cooper, senior scientist at Cybertrust Inc. and editor of the NTBugtraq discussion list. |
 | | "The people that have 445 exposed, and therefore would be vulnerable to attack by last week's exploit, will likely already have been compromised by anything that's been going around for the last three years," he said yesterday. |
 | | Users who have a firewall or a router that blocks access to Port 445 are unlikely to be affected by the SMB bug, even if they haven't installed Microsoft's latest patches, he said. |
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