Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can someone access your computer by a port if nothing is listening to that
port?
Hopefully not.
If not, then if you turn off services that you don't use and need to access
used services remotely (i.e. let them through a firewall), do you need a
I'm still very much a newbie regarding networking issues and firewalls; so if
I need to be slapped, please be gentle. ;-)
Most of my home computers are behind a NAT router with very simple firewalls
-- let all requests out, allow established in, deny everything else. I put a
test computer in