On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:35:08 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> Lars,
> If you're on a cable modem, your ISP should have the firewalls in place.
> From what I understand, even having a "real" IP like I do is rather rare
> on most setups. And IIRC you have to have a "real" xxx.xxx.xxx.xx IP to
> even have to worry about people getting through to you. And my ISP's
> firewalls protect all the IPs the server holds.
FWIW,
Even with a "real IP" and no firewall in place....
No-one can get through to you if all you are running is a web browser.
In order for some-one to access your machine.... you would need to be
running a Web server program.
With only a "web client program" (browser), running.
You are 100% safe from being attacked.
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