I second the notion of using a firewall/router box. I use one at home,
and since I have no need to connect from outside the home to inside the
home, I just set up the router to block all ports when coming from the
outside. And, as far as I know no one can crack it because it
automatically drops all incoming requests! And, even if you have to
connect on some ports from the outside, you can specify which machines
to redirect them to and make sure those machines are as secure as
possible. Best of all, it's extremely easy as it has a nice web
management interface to manage all the settings (mine's a Linksys
DSL/cable router but there are others available).
-Warren
-----Original Message-----
From: Hewitt, Alexander
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 4:48 PM
To: Greg Kettmann
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: A story and some advice.
Greg, the best advice that you will get from me and others who frequent
this
group is to invest in a firewall/router box. I use the LinkSys BEFSR41
which has
4 10/100 ports but there are several other manufacturers of these
devices. They
cost around $150 or so but allow you to share up to 4 systems on your
cable-modem connection and as far as I know are impervious to
hackers/script
kiddies. Well worth the piece of mind!
-Alex
P.S. Unless you have a lot of time on your hands, I think you will find
that
hardening a system is an on-going chore that you probably don't have the
time
for. Just reading the logs would be time consuming.
Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster!
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it
said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." -
Anonymous
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