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Personally, I think hiding a computer behind a firewall is much more
secure. That adds another line of defense before they get into your
network. Beside appliances are typically more secure (as opposed to a
server sitting directly on the internet). I doubt that a log can crash the
PC unless the system is running seriously low on disk space. On Windows you
never truly know the culprit though. I would say your theory is more likely.

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Roger Vicker, CCP <rv-tech@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Hello,

I've got a windows 2008 system that we use RDP on to remote into the
local network for maintenance and support. We've been logging a lot of
invalid logon attempts from the internet. One admin thinks that these
are causing the server to lock up about once a month. I think it is a
memory leak from the SQL server instance for the backup software.
Blocking RDP from all but a few IPs isn't really viable as when we are
outside we are mobile and seldom know ahead of time what IP we will be
using.

Has anyone else seen a server brought down by invalid RDP logins?

Other than switching to a VPN, how have you dealt with large number of
login attempts?

Thanks.

Roger Vicker, CCP

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chasm in two small jumps. -- David Loyd George

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