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Is enabling telnet a security concern?

Fresh6 days ago
Mar 15, 202618198 views
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Why is it that Vista comes with disabled? If i enable it, is it a potential risk? Also, in the list there is "telnet client" and "telnet server". I'm wondering what's the difference between enabling each of them?

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Telnet is a protocol that allows one computer to execute a text terminal on another. It's just a connection that transfers text from one to the other computer. The Telnet server will listen for incoming connections into YOUR COMPUTER. Mostly you wil…

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