On Thursday 31 July 2003 06:21 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 05:03, Dennis Myers wrote: > > http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/advisories/2003/Potential7302003.htm > > The above is a Govt. warning on Internet attacks on Windows systems. I > > don't know a great deal about that kind of attack, so if I have the > > windows machine behind a router and a linux firewall will this afford > > some protection against a remote procedure call attack? Stephen or any of > > y'all that do Sysadmin? > > You'd want to have the machine not just behind your router and firewall, > but behind the system's proxy as well = so that it's internal IP is > translated to an outside IP address - hence masked. > > Or rather, the best bet would be to yank the little blue cable coming > out of the back of it for the greatest amount of protection... > > (g) Thanks Stephen, so far so good, it is using IPmasquarading and I wish I could pull the plug or better yet, stick "data eraser" in the floppy drive and blow it away, then install ML9.2 which looks pretty good apart from MCC misfires. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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