It's a jungle out there

[fleetfootmike]

Installed stevieannie's ADSL for them yesterday, having refused to let them plug it in till I'd set up the firewall on the router.

Within twenty minutes of putting it online, the firewall bounced its first attempted winnuke, and it's currently rejecting various probes about one every ten minutes, and has been ever since it started. And will no doubt continue to do so.

Lets be careful out there, folks. GET a firewall, be it XP's, OS X's or a software one like Zone Alarm. Use it.

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[keristor.livejournal.com]

I have a hardware one, but because I connect from Win2k to work via a VPN I also have ZoneAlarm. And some virus thing with three letters (AVG or something like that? It's free for personal use) which has never found anything unpleasant on my machine (it doesn't think Windoze is unpleasant *g*)...