On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 02:24, JoeHill wrote: I run Smoothwall as a fire wall. It will run on a p100 or better with 32mb of ram and a 1 gig drive. Does not need a moniter or keyboard once set up This setup will be more than powerfull enough to protect a home network. Then run a decent av scanner to protect the windoz machine from trojens, dialers ect. I run Norton or Mcafee, depending on who is offering the best deal at the time. I have just upgradded my fire wall box to an old celleron 333mx with 192mb of ram and given my old box to a friend, (p133 32mb ram & 540mb hd). The old setup protected my 7 pc home network for over 3 years now using dial up and broadband. Here is the address. http://www.smoothwall.org As for converting your dad to a decent o/s try getting him a 256mb usb memory stick and down loading mandrakemove. Make a nice Xmass present. > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:10:11 -0500 > > Bryan Phinney disseminated the following: > > 2 weeks before the machine gets compromised. > > ...I must say though (not bragging, by any stretch), that I do have a > Windows XP box running on my LAN, default install, *no Service Packs > installed*, just running AVG, and it's never been in any way compromised, > not even with spyware. I can only assume that my beloved BBIAgent firewall > has been very effective, and I can't say enough nice things about AVG. > > It's just too bad that people even have to worry about it, considering the > far superior alternatives. I certainly would never even consider exposing > that XP machine as a server of any kind.
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