Re: laptop protection in an office network

From	Joe <joe@jretrading.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: laptop protection in an office network
Date	2015-08-29 09:20 +0200
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On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 01:16:35 -0500
rlharris@oplink.net wrote:

> On Sat, August 29, 2015 12:53 am, Riley Baird wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 23:56:17 -0500
> > rlharris@oplink.net wrote:
> >> Do I need to take special precautions such as configuring the
> >> iptable firewall on my laptop?  Is the laptop likely to "pick up"
> >> anything (virus, trojan, or whatever) which could compromise the
> >> machines in my own network?
> >
> > Probably not, if you have no network services running on your
> > laptop.
> 
> On https://wiki.debian.org/Network I find the following list of
> network services:
> 
> Printing, Data Base, DHCP, DNS, FTP, LDAP, Mail, Monitoring, NTP, PPP,
> Remote Display, File sharing, Disk Sharing, SSH, SVN, Web Server, IM,
> IPSec VPN, Azureus as a daemon
> 
> I do not recall all the details of the installation, but I did install
> SSH, printing, and approx.  I may have installed NTP and a web
> server.  I did not install mail.
> 
> The laptop uses DHCP to get an ip address from the router, but DHCP as
> a network service must have to do with a machine used as a router,
> correct?
> 
> Installing again would take only a few hours, most of the time being
> spent on configuration of the XFCE desktop.
> 

Do you have other Linux machines in your network? If so, use nmap from
one of them to see what services your laptop is offering.

It is possible to install nmap on Windows, but Windows networking is
such a pain these days that I wouldn't trust the results of running it.
In particular, Windows AV software is increasingly invasive. If you
don't have another Linux machine, you could run a Live CD/USB.

-- 
Joe

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laptop protection in an office network rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-08-29 07:00 +0200
  Re: laptop protection in an office network Riley Baird <BM-2cVqnDuYbAU5do2DfJTrN7ZbAJ246S4XiX@bitmessage.ch> - 2015-08-29 08:00 +0200
    Re: laptop protection in an office network rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-08-29 08:20 +0200
      Re: laptop protection in an office network Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-08-29 09:20 +0200
        Re: laptop protection in an office network rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-08-29 10:20 +0200
          Re: laptop protection in an office network <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-08-29 14:00 +0200
            Re: laptop protection in an office network rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-08-29 18:20 +0200
              Re: laptop protection in an office network Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-08-29 18:30 +0200
            Re: laptop protection in an office network rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-08-29 20:30 +0200
              Re: laptop protection in an office network Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 20:40 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-08-29 21:10 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 21:30 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-08-29 21:50 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2015-08-30 02:40 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-08-30 03:30 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2015-08-30 03:40 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-08-30 04:30 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2015-08-30 04:50 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-08-30 05:00 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-08-31 00:20 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2015-08-30 05:10 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-08-30 06:40 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2015-08-30 07:30 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> - 2015-08-31 03:50 +0200
                quality keyboards rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-08-31 09:10 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards Petter Adsen <petter@synth.no> - 2015-08-31 09:40 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards "Gian Uberto Lauri" <saint@eng.it>  - 2015-08-31 09:50 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards Petter Adsen <petter@synth.no> - 2015-08-31 12:00 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2015-08-31 13:20 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards Petter Adsen <petter@synth.no> - 2015-08-31 14:30 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards "Gian Uberto Lauri" <saint@eng.it>  - 2015-08-31 14:40 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2015-08-31 15:50 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards Petter Adsen <petter@synth.no> - 2015-08-31 16:40 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards "Gian Uberto Lauri" <saint@eng.it>  - 2015-08-31 17:00 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards Anthony Maples <anthonym7009@gmail.com> - 2015-09-01 00:10 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2015-08-31 16:10 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2015-08-31 13:00 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2015-08-31 14:20 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2015-08-31 13:10 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2015-08-31 14:30 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards Petter Adsen <petter@synth.no> - 2015-08-31 15:00 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards "Gian Uberto Lauri" <saint@eng.it>  - 2015-08-31 15:10 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-08-31 15:10 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> - 2015-08-31 13:20 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-08-31 17:40 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-08-31 18:30 +0200
                Re: quality keyboards Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2015-08-31 21:50 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-08-29 21:10 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 21:20 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-08-29 21:50 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 22:00 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-08-30 00:10 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2015-08-30 00:30 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-08-30 00:50 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-08-30 09:40 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-08-30 16:10 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-08-30 18:30 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-08-30 20:50 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-08-29 21:30 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-08-29 22:00 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-08-29 22:30 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-08-29 22:50 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> - 2015-08-29 23:40 +0200
              Re: laptop protection in an office network <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-08-29 23:00 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-08-30 00:30 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-08-30 09:50 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-08-30 10:30 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-08-30 10:40 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-08-30 01:50 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-08-30 09:30 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-08-30 10:30 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-08-30 11:10 +0200
                Re: laptop protection in an office network Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-08-30 21:10 +0200

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