On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 2:00 pm, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote:
> Hello Derek,
>
> Even though 'high' is very severe according to your words, my connection to
> the internet via my ISP works fine and I encountered no road blocks towards
> internet.
> Your remarks give me a very save feeling (but: who can assure me that you
> are not a malicious hacker trying to lull me and rule my machine?)
>
> Ed
>

Well give me your IP address, root password and Credit card number, and then 
see how trustworthy I am :-)

Seriously :- At high security the msec security system will enforce file 
permissions quite strictly. People on high security often complain they set 
file permissions one way, and then a few minutes later they get changed. If 
'High' works for you then fine. But be aware if 'weird' things happen it 
could be because of the security level.

BTW: The security level is unrelated to the firewall. You can test your 
firewall here http://scan.sygatetech.com/

(Hmm How do you know that site does not contain malicious HTML designed to 
cause a buffer overflow in your browser and install a Trojan on your 
computer?  - The best defence against that possibility is to not visit the 
site with Internet Explorer :-)

derek
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