I have seen a system misconfigured and people dumped gigabytes of warez on it. I regularly hear of systems compromised (no firewall!). None of the systems I have, or know that have been properly firewalled have been cracked.
Its called layered protection - balance the fact that I have seen non-firewalled systems in trouble, but have never experienced a firewall causing a problem. I would temper the advice though: go with a recognised firewall script (monmotha, shorewall etc) and not a home-brew unless you rate as expert, and while a firewall will help with many misconfigurations, it still not idiot proof. BillK On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 13:20, Ernst Herzberg wrote: > On Sonntag, 23. November 2003 04:33, Chris wrote: > > > > > > > I have only one PC (laptop) and my internet connection is a dial-up so > > > I am not online all the time. > > > > > > I don't think I need a firewall because I am not running any servers > > > (only apache and only the local IP 127.0.0.1 can access it ). > > > > > > Some friend told me that I must run a firewall to protect my PC , Do > > > you think I have to do that ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
