I'm running a Dell PowerEdge 2500 and while SNMP is running by default, my community string is PUBLIC with READ ONLY. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Will Backman" <whb@ceimaine.org> To: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 3:15 PM Subject: SNMP Enabled on Dell Servers > While Microsoft says that SNMP is NOT enabled on any version of Windows, > my new Dell PowerEdge with Win2000SP2 came with it installed and > running. Besides the current exploits, it uses the stupid defaults that > NT4.0 has, which is a community string of PUBLIC with READ-CREATE. > > I figure the new holes in SNMP will case a lot of scanning for the > service, and there may be a lot of folks who do not realize that the > vendor might have installed it and turned it on in the OEM media. > > Will Backman > Network Administrator >