[TheForge] o.t. attacks on the internet

[Kevin Hall]

Hello all,
Not to perpetuate an off topic thread, But I feel this needs to be said.

At 05:01 AM 1/26/2003, you wrote:

<CLIP>

>please, turn off network services on your computers which you are
>not using. suggestions are smtp, ftp, httpd, rlogin, nfs, telnet.
>if you have a hardware firewall or software firewall make sure it
>is working correctly.

Please be careful before turning off such services and know what you are 
turning off.
For example, My e-mail uses smtp (Simple Mail Transport Protocol) which 
controls outgoing e-mail. Turning that off would keep me from sending out 
any e-mail. FTP (File Transport Protocol) I also use from certain sites as 
downloads and also to upload my webpages. I am a Network Technician and 
deal with people doing things like this regularly. Just please, do some 
research or talk with your local pc guru or network person before turning 
off and services or protocols.

Thanks,
Kevin