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Re: Port 8081 mystery

Subject: Re: Port 8081 mystery
Date: 23 Jan 2007 23:58:27 -0000
Surprise!  McAfee ePO, a security product, by default turns all of your 
workstations into web servers.  Didn't your McAfee sales person tell you that?

TCP 8081 is an HTTP web service that listens by default on all workstations 
where the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator client is installed.

This is a very rudimentary HTTP implementation, so some basic security features 
won't be added until future versions.  In previous versions of ePO, the 
checkbox to disable the HTTP web server didn't work, so that there was no way 
to turn it off.  I'm told they fixed that some time ago, but I haven't 
confirmed that yet.  If you disable the HTTP service on ePO clients, you do 
lose a bit of functionality, so know what will stop working before you disable 
it.


kind regards,
Karl Levinson
http://securityadmin.info

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