Alec
August 13th, 2004, 04:37 PM
I just read that Nmap is now broken after the installation of SP2, straight from Fyodor (http://seclists.org/lists/nmap-hackers/2004/Jul-Sep/0002.html). As the article notes, Microsoft reps supposedly stated:-{ Quote: "We have removed support for TCP sends over RAW sockets in SP2. We surveyed applications and found the only apps using this on XP were people writing attack tools." }-If you ask me, this stinks. I guess that the chicken little, Steve Gibson, finally got his wish. :-\
Edit: Hmm... well I just checked my copy of nmap out and some of the basic stuff still seems to work. It must be some of the esoteric options that Fyodor is talking about. Anyway, I just tried out Gibson's SocketToMe test app and raw sockets weren't available on limited XP SP2 accounts, but WERE apparently available to Administrator level accounts. I thought this was normal pre-SP2 behavior? There must be much more to this, or else Microsoft reversed course at the last minute or something. I guess I'm just rambling now... <shrug>
:P
Edit: Hmm... well I just checked my copy of nmap out and some of the basic stuff still seems to work. It must be some of the esoteric options that Fyodor is talking about. Anyway, I just tried out Gibson's SocketToMe test app and raw sockets weren't available on limited XP SP2 accounts, but WERE apparently available to Administrator level accounts. I thought this was normal pre-SP2 behavior? There must be much more to this, or else Microsoft reversed course at the last minute or something. I guess I'm just rambling now... <shrug>
:P