On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:54:32 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi guys
> I finally convinced the supervisors in my university research group that
> our windows machines are not very safe as they are...they are connected
> to the net 24 hours a day with a couple of ports always open...and the
> information on thos pc are quite important...I thought we could use the
> Mandrake Single Network FIrewall (or smoothwall) to create an internal network
> and connect to the rest of university network and to the external world
> through such a secure firewall....
> can anyone give any help or suggestion on how to set it up correctly...the
> network technicians here are useless (otherwise they wouldn't have ste up
> a Windoze network in the first place!!!!!)
There's a very good chance that these machines have been compromised already.
The only way to be sure that they are safe would be to wipe their hard drives
clean and reinstall Windows. At the same time, implement the GNU/Linux firewall.
A firewall is useless if the fire has already passsed it.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan
Mac OS, Windows, BeOS: they're all just Xerox copies.
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