On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:47:57PM -0600, Bobby Mac wrote: > What are the new set of best practices for those running a NIX home > computer. Yes I have a firewall and I do peruse my logs on a regular > basis.
1. Don't have services listening unless you need them. 2. If you can, move needed services to nonstandard ports. If the only ports you have open are for services you want/need to access from anywhere, then you don't need a firewall. > BTW: ever drop a malformed URL to alert an admin to some thing that sucks? > w3.hp.com/execs/makes/too/much/money or > www.yourbuddiesdomain.com/it/is/all/rfc/space/use/1918/when/referring/to/non/routable Yes.
