Alex- Friday, March 24, 2006, 12:50:41 AM, you wrote:
> What would you do with a laptop that sometimes gets used on public > networks (e.g. Internet cafes, public wifi nets, etc.)? Touche... I had been thinking of real computers, not laptops <g>. > I keep Win-XP Firewall on most of the time, and disable it temporarily > when I have a problem and if it is safe to do so. If I have (e.g. Rev > FTP problems) while using an unsafe network, I find another way to do it. My windows boxes are behind *two* sets of piggybacked routers, so I have an inner and an outer subnet. Back in the Bad Old Days when hardware routers were expensive I used to use software firewalls, but maintenance ended up being more trouble than it was worth. Now a couple of $30 plastic boxes keep my local network traffic local, they're cross-platform, and my network can be exposed to the internet 24/7 without my having to worry about a thing. But (sigh) if I had to use a windows laptop I'd probably use the internal firewall when I went outside to play. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution