On 03/03/2011 09:34 PM, Vince Hoang wrote:
On Mar 3, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Al Plant<n...@hdk5.net> wrote
Does anyone on the list have experience with a firewall on an Oceanic cable
feed? Linux or Freebsd is what I use,.but I only have experience with firewalls
on Telcom lines.
IP is IP. It doesn't matter if your provider hands you cable, DSL, Ethernet or
wireless; you protect it the same way.
I am trying to help a guy with a Windows 7 box. He has netflix on this cable
too so it may have a fixed IP.
He gets attacked a lot with viruses and other weirdness even with Norton on the
box.
Any suggestions appreciated.
If you have a gateway that does NAT, you are shielded from most of the network
based attacks.
However, I see most malware through compromised sites and ads, via the web
these days.
I'll second Jon's suggestion of FireFox/NoScript for tech savvy folks. For
others, start with an ad blocker and Chrome if Win7/IE8 doesn't seem to be
doing the trick.
My best suggestion is to have 1 PC that has no network access or is only used
to visit financial sites and a 2nd PC for recreational use.
-Vince
Vince brings up a really good point about a 2nd PC for financial sites.
Another option would be if the person cannot afford a 2nd PC then burn
them a copy of Knoppix or some other live cd and teach them to use that
when they do those types of transactions.
Really Al what this person needs is a good lesson on what is safe and
what is not safe on the Internet. Clicking install on everything that
pops up or allowing images to be loaded in email from third-party
websites is asking for trouble. What is obvious to us is not obvious to
the regular user, we deal with this on a daily basis because it is our
job, we know the basics of safe "Internetting". But we really are the
exception, what we take as common sense is really not that common to the
uninitiated. I believe in this users case knowledge will go a lot
farther than software and hardware and it will save you a little piece
of sanity. :)
Jon
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