I've been having unbelievably horrible security problems on both my family's computer (Win98SE) and the Windows partition of this dual boot system. Two weeks ago someone was stealing my email from my ISP's server. I then got Norton Personal Firewall for both computers, and for the last three days the dial up connection kept repeatedly starting on my computer both when the computer booted up and when it shutdown. In fact I couldn't even shut it down, all I could do is reboot into Linux and then shutdown. Also interesting is that Norton Firewall was knocked out. (And I wonder if the hacker or worm got in through Linux because I wasn't online in Windows very much. The Windows partition automatically mounts when Linux boots.)
I've reformatted both computers in the last week. On both computers I have disabled the automatic use of passwords to both log onto the ISP, and then to get email. So now you have to type the password in at least twice to get email. This is inconvenient, and so my question is, am I being too paranoid? Is it really necessary to disable the feature that retains the password? Thank you. PS. I've got to use a password just to send this message. Bob _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech