| Art Clemons on 19 Jan 2005 17:28:35 -0000 |
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Ron Mansolino: I have a handful of small drives (1-4 g) that I'm going to do ... Let me suggest that even using an external firewall, you might want to keep zonealarm or kerio running on a windows computer. Often the only warning if any that windows has been compromised is some unknown and unexpected program attempting to access the internet. Most folks today download the windows program that compromises their computer and then discover it. Sure there are successful hacks on non-firewalled computers but truthfully most trojans and invaders are the result of a user downloading some program and either installing it or the program installing itself unbeknownst to the user. No known external firewall will protect against someone who wants to use compromised software without extensive rewriting of the firewall rules and bugging the administrator about new programs rather than the default of allowing connections established by computers on the lan to go out. ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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