Re: [freenet-support] norton firewall

2004-06-14 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Madeline Brubaker wrote: | Would someone step me through setting up Norton Internet Security | Professional properly? I'm not entirely sure how to Do yourself a favor, and don't run that software. Yes, I'm a Linux nut. My attitude towards Windows

Re: [freenet-support] norton firewall

2004-06-14 Thread Michael R. Stork
David Masover wrote: Madeline Brubaker wrote: | Would someone step me through setting up Norton Internet Security | Professional properly? I'm not entirely sure how to Do yourself a favor, and don't run that software. Yes, I'm a Linux nut. My attitude towards Windows boxes is: almost all Windows

Re: [freenet-support] norton firewall

2004-06-14 Thread freenetproject
I'm not a Linux nut, but I agree with this in principal. Just using a software firewall is totally insecure. Your best bet, if you don't want to bother setting up a Linux box to act as your go between, [...] What, a linux/unix box is *not* a software firewall? :) -- 5:45PM up 132 days, 3

Re: [freenet-support] norton firewall

2004-06-14 Thread Jay Oliveri
On Monday 14 June 2004 08:45 am, David Masover wrote: Madeline Brubaker wrote: | Would someone step me through setting up Norton Internet Security | Professional properly? I'm not entirely sure how to Do yourself a favor, and don't run that software. Yes, I'm a Linux nut. My attitude

Re: [freenet-support] norton firewall

2004-06-14 Thread Michael R. Stork
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not a Linux nut, but I agree with this in principal. Just using a software firewall is totally insecure. Your best bet, if you don't want to bother setting up a Linux box to act as your go between, [...] What, a linux/unix box is *not* a software firewall? :)

Re: [freenet-support] norton firewall

2004-06-14 Thread Nicholas Sturm
Dear Madeline Brubaker: Please excuse the nuts around here that seem to be as much of a problem as Apple lovers once were. I don't particularly like some of Window's creations, but even though Linus releases are getting slowly more usable for ordinary people, they still do not have enough

Re: [freenet-support] norton firewall

2004-06-14 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael R. Stork wrote: [...] | a hardware firewall and NAT. I wouldn't connect any PC direct to a | cable/DSL line. I would. A linux one. Or better, a BSD one. With daily updates. The firewall really wouldn't help all that much for me, although I

Re: [freenet-support] norton firewall

2004-06-14 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |I'm not a Linux nut, but I agree with this in principal. Just using a |software firewall is totally insecure. Your best bet, if you don't want |to bother setting up a Linux box to act as your go between, [...] | | | What, a

Re: [freenet-support] norton firewall

2004-06-14 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nicholas Sturm wrote: | Dear | |Madeline Brubaker: | | | Please excuse the nuts around here that seem to be as much of a | problem as Apple lovers once were. Ooh! Ooh! I smell a rant! Please excuse my response to being called a nut. | I don't

Re: [freenet-support] norton firewall

2004-06-14 Thread Michael R. Stork
David Masover wrote: Michael R. Stork wrote: [...] | a hardware firewall and NAT. I wouldn't connect any PC direct to a | cable/DSL line. I would. A linux one. Or better, a BSD one. With daily updates. The firewall really wouldn't help all that much for me, although I do use NAT as an

Linux vs Windows was (Re: [freenet-support] norton firewall)

2004-06-14 Thread Michael R. Stork
David Masover wrote: | What, a linux/unix box is *not* a software firewall? :) Point taken. But Linux kernel vs Norton userspace? About the third time I've said so on this list, but I just turn off the _services_ that I don't use, and people get denied anyway, with no special firewall. What's