Re: Blocking RDP attempts

[Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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Mike Wills
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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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