[AT] OT : ! puter question for dsl

[Dave Merchant]

DSL without a firewall is very dangerous!
Anybody can look into your compuker from anywhere.

2 good options

1.      Get a cheap firewall/router box from any office or computer store.
         They are really cheap now, and if set up right make your computer 
invisible to the world.
         This has the advantage that you can add a couple more PCs to the 
DSL later.

2.      Get firewall software. I use Zone Alarm, free download.from 
www.zonelabs.com

I have both, but don't run always ZoneAlarm, since it "protects" me from 
doing my job,
embedded software development work.

Dave Merchant


At 06:11 PM 3/15/2005, Ivan Cousins wrote:
>  We finally got the chance to go from dialup to dsl out here . I am used to
>turning my pc off at night and when we go away . But since dsl is always on
>what happens ?   As a security measure all my tax records and sensitive
>stuff are moving to a external drive so they can be  only accessed when
>plugged in .   Thanks , Ivan
>
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Dave Merchant
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