Jim Lux wrote:
At 05:04 PM 4/23/2006, Larry Loen wrote:
Ken N9VV wrote:
>(6) you have turned off virus checker, firewall, ...
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The rest is debatable, but no machine even indirectly hooked up to the
internet should turn off the virus checker and the firewall.
Unless you happen to have a standalone box doing that function. I'd
rather have one box that looks at all the inet traffic in and out of
the house than attempt to distribute that load across all the machines
inside the firewall.
1. There is no such thing as a "standalone virus detector." I trust we
aren't arguing about that one?
2. I'm taking it for granted that if the firewall is on to start with,
there's a good reason for it to be there. This could possibly include a
"once in a while" dialup or, for a laptop, a "hotspot" broadband network
that has a different topology than usual. In short, I'm not going to
outguess a topology (or, possibly, set of topologies) I know nothing
about, especially for such a marginal benefit. It's too easy to forget
to turn this sort of thing back on.
Larry WO0Z
