DMZ

[iago]

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Unless he has a firewall, people can get a ton of information about him and his computer through a Null Session.  There's also a lot of stuff open, listening for connections, which is never secure.  Having stuff running (listening) that you don't know what it does is never a good idea.

They can get the file names of files in the root directories of my hard disk partitions.  Beyond that, I have file permissions set.  Root files have read-only access to Everyone.

When I reformat, I turn off DMZ to my machine until I get it patched.  Running SP1a or SP2, I've never had a problem.  I don't even run Windows firewall.

On a sidenote, make sure the newest patches are applied.  There's exploit code out for another SMB vulnerability which can explode if somebody creates a worm from it.