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   From: Peter Flass    
      
   On 11/7/2011 10:55 PM, Mike Luther wrote:   
   >>   
   >   
   > The problem about allowing use of Netbios/TCPIP with OS/2 itself is that   
   > it is possible for an external source outside of even your 4.52 OS/2 box   
   > that is connected to the Internet to puncture your OS/2 box itself! I   
   > have actually seen where external virus operations can attack even an   
   > OS/2 box using this protocol to dump files into the OS/2 box in   
   > virtually every directory! Now that done, sure, maybe they are WIndows   
   > viri stuff. And that doesn't work on an OS/2 box, unless, per chance,   
   > you have the device driver(s) also installed on your OS/2 box to let it   
   > interface to, say, an internal OS/2 box on your network behind the   
   > router. Aha! Another naughty vector for trouble. But wait! There is   
   > more! If you can play this stunt, you can also modify, say, the   
   > CONFIG.SYS file to 'run' something else on startup that is punched in to   
   > your OS/2 box that way! Or, groan, even a DOS nasty starting point issue   
   > in even the conventional AUTOEXEC.BAT on it.   
      
   Simple enough to fix if you have a firewall router: Just don't allow    
   NETBIOS/TCP to pass thru the router.  I use it to share files on my home    
   network between OS/2, Linux, and windoze, but not externally.   
      
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