Telnet & SMTP

External Since: Jul 23, 2006 Posts: 3

A recent Nessus scan reported that one of my servers has reported two
security holes:

1. Telnet is running and is vulernable to buffer overflows.

2. Port 80 is open and can be killed by sending a request with an too long
Basic authentication field.

Is the Telnet service required for SMTP to properly function?

Thank you.

External Since: May 04, 2004 Posts: 559

There is nothing about Windows that requires telnet, including SMTP.
If your port 80 is serviced by IIS and the machine is up to date on
service pack / security patches then what is reported by Nessus is
not accurate.

"Tim" <tim.TakeThisOut@NOSPAMvisualmalls.com> wrote in message
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>A recent Nessus scan reported that one of my servers has reported two
>security holes:
>
> 1. Telnet is running and is vulernable to buffer overflows.
>
> 2. Port 80 is open and can be killed by sending a request with an too long
> Basic authentication field.
>
> Is the Telnet service required for SMTP to properly function?
>
> Thank you.
>