Re: Internet firewall

2005-08-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-23 09:47, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 8/20/05, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Writing about the need for a firewall.] It takes about 4-5 seconds when I connect with my dialup account from home and then incoming connections start coming from spyware, trojans and misc. othe

Re: Internet firewall

2005-08-22 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 8/20/05, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-08-20 09:12, Gareth Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > I'm a newbie and have got my box all set up with FreeBSD 5.4, fluxbox > > wm, firefox, thunderbird etc... It's all looking awesome, with > > transparency

Re: Internet firewall

2005-08-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-20 09:12, Gareth Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm a newbie and have got my box all set up with FreeBSD 5.4, fluxbox > wm, firefox, thunderbird etc... It's all looking awesome, with > transparency, and working well. I run it on dial-up ppp but haven't set > up any

Internet firewall

2005-08-19 Thread Gareth Campbell
Hey guys, I'm a newbie and have got my box all set up with FreeBSD 5.4, fluxbox wm, firefox, thunderbird etc... It's all looking awesome, with transparency, and working well. I run it on dial-up ppp but haven't set up any firewall. Should I be setting one up? If so, do I use one of the bu