[Ham-Computers] Why is DSL/Wideband more "hackable"?

[Dan Violette]

Good answers to question so far.  Only thing I would add is the broadband
usually keeps the same IP address for months to years for you.  The dial-up
gets a new one every time you dial.  So on dial-up even if they got your IP
address, it is gone as soon as you hang up.  Also the denial of service type
attacks don't care to use dial-up because it is too slow to cause the kind
of problems they want to initiate.

Dan KI6X

-----Original Message-----

Philip Atchley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just a quick question here, perhaps the answer is obvious, but not to 
> me.
>
> Why are the wideband services "easier" to penetrate than a simple
> dial-up?  The reason I ask is,  using the dial-up my virus scanner 
> (AVAST) was was blocking constant "Port 135 DCOM Exploit attacks" 
> until I "plugged the hole" (I was running the XP firewall).  Also Zone 
> Alarm indicates pretty much of a steady stream of "probes", which of 
> course it blocks.  All this over a Dial-up.
>
> Now, the 20th I'm installing DSL.  I've been told I should definitely
> have a hardware router, which I don't have (I thought my 5 port hub 
> was one, but it isn't).
> Questions:
> 1.  WHY would my system be more vulnerable with DSL than it already 
> was/is with dial-up?
> 2.  Is it simply because the higher speed allows more attacks or 
> probes to my machine in a certain period of time, or is it more to do 
> with the "always on" feature of the wideband that allows more "time" 
> for exposure?
> 3.  Or is it just a natural weakness of the Wideband system itself?
>
> Inquiring minds want to know 8^)
>
> 73 de Phil  KO6BB
>  
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