> Yes. Any open port is a risk. The assp http port (55555) should not be > acessible from the internet. We usualy use firewalls for such tasks.
Absolutely, there should always be some sort of protection from the internet blocking everything but the needed ports. Either a gateway doing NAT, or a real firewall appliance. Check out www.smoothwall.org for a free solution using a spare computer. I run this at home. I use it to forward ports 25 and 110 and 587 to my email server inside my network. At work we use an expensive commercial product and only allow SMTP and VPN traffic inbound. Additionally I am running Avast antivirus, Comodo Firewall, and SpywareTerminator on my email server to further protect it from trojans and the like if it ever does get hacked. Doug Traylor ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
