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Originally Posted by Pem
Someone has been reading too many security warnings  - open port does not equal problem.
Short answer is no - every pop3 server in the world has port 110 open, but I've yet to see anyone hack into them via it |
Surely that's entirely dependant on the software providing POP services? Flakey software could well expose the host machine to an attack.
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Originally Posted by Pem
- and in this case it's almost certainly only open on your machine anyway - not to anyone else
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Heck of an assumption to make!
