Given the ongoing discussion re virus software: in our home, we have
three Macs on an Aiport network that connects to the internet via an
Airport Extreme Base Station. My understanding is that the Base Station
provides some level of security, inasmuch as it 'masks' our Macs behind
its IP address. Am I correct in assuming that in these circumstances we
are fairly secure from direct attack, and that the main route from
which a virus/malicious attack could come is as an email attachment or
Word Macro? And that hence, given that we never open any attachment
unless we know that the person sending it, was supposed to do so, we
should be fairly secure? Probably I am wrong, and if so I am sure you
will soon disabuse me of my mislpaced confidence. I've no antivirus at
all, just the Panther Firewall, but of course we have File Sharing on
all the time, because of the home network. I turned off Guest Access by
using a little program called XGuest. Is this living dangerously?
Thanks for any info,
Walter
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