On Tue, 06 Jul 1999, you wrote: > Actually, DSL is just as vunerable as any other form of TCP/IP transport. > On the windows platform (believe it or not) there are security measures > in place, and some you can tighten your self like unbinding fileshareing > from the inet interface. Your just as vunerable on a dialup connection too > might i add ;) True, but it would be harder for someone to break into my computer when the modem is turned off. (which is more than half the time) Security boils down to one general rule if you don't use it > it doesn't need to be there, and if you do think you need it you should > reconsider. If something absolutly needs tobe accepting connections it > should be properly firewalled. Also some software to monitor what's going on across the net, and alert someone when suspicious traffic appears would be appropriate. Irv
