OT: MS/Unisys Have Made My Day

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Tue Apr 2 14:51:41 2002

On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> Now why would MS (or someone working for them) be running RC1 or RC2 rather
> than the release version of XP?

  I dunno. But nmap is usually accurate, and I'm running a very recent
release.

~# nmap -O www.wehavethewayout.com

Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA31 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
^[[A^[[AInteresting ports on www.wehavethewayout.com (130.94.214.143):
(The 1162 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered)

<much snippage>

Remote operating system guess: Windows XP Professional Release Candidate
1 or 2

What's really odd is that port 5900 is open -- the usual port for VNC's
http clients. VNC is an opensource remote desktop app a la Exceed. You
can run the client as a stand-alone app or in a browser. There are a
LOT of open ports I wouldn't expect on a webserver. But then, this IS
MicroSoft.

        Doc
Received on Tue Apr 02 2002 - 14:51:41 BST

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