[Fists] a little off topic but

Sat, 30 Mar 2002 11:55:53 -0500

Ken,

You should either have firewall software or a router setup with internal
firewall. You can go to www.zonealarm.com or www.blackice.com, I think they
both have a free version of a personal firewall you can try for free. You
will be surprised after you install them when you see the
attacks/prods/pokes coming in all the time.

With your workgroup setup it might be cheaper/easier to have your own
router.

Neither one will be real difficult to setup. Either one can cause problems
with a particular software pkg, but that's relatively rare. Most software
doesn't care about establishing a connection from the outside world-in, just
the other way around.

Hope this helps.

73,

Mark W1EOF
FISTS: 7529

PS/Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with any of these companies.

> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of ken cubilo electric
> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 9:13 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Fists] a little off topic but
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>
> Can any of you network wizards out there help me with a question. Since
> getting a high speed full time I-net connection, I have had many reports
> of hacking attempts, trojan horses etc. Some where I heard that a high
> speed router can act as a virtual firewall and make the machines on a
> network invisible to the outside world. Is this true and is it a big
> deal to setup?  Right now I am running 4 machines through a work group
> hub
> each as its own IP address from the provider. Thanks in advance and
> sorry for the off topic post.
> ken w8ob #7242
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