* Thomas Fernandez writes: > The IP address is crucial for entering a computer. > A dial-up user, who isn't online very long and gets dynamic IP > adresses, is therefore less interesting.
You could see it just the other way: dial-up users are people with a poorly configured OS', many of them don't even know what a Service Pack or Security Update is. It is not important for how long one is online. It needs seconds to implant malware (maybe a remote control tool, communicating via IRC and disabling a desktop firewall) through the well known security holes of an unpatched system. And voila: we have a new spam server, warez server, ... And this is NOT a Windows problem. So keep your systems secure by installing security patches! And learn how IP works. > I now think this was > Carsten's point when he mentioned dial-up. I thought he meant the way > of connection. No, it wasn't. For me security is binary. Either a system is secure to a given scenario or it is not. It should not matter if one system is more likely to get »attacked« than the other. -- Carsten ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.00 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
