On 10 Jun 2008 at 17:57, M Henri Day wrote: > 2008/6/10 mike scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On 10 Jun 2008 at 17:16, M Henri Day wrote: > > ... > > > advisory. And it might not be a bad idea to also say something about > > > turning off the firewall during the downloading process.... > > > > I hope you didn't mean that! Sounds a recipe for disaster to me. ... > The important thing, Mike, is to point out the need to reactivate both the > antivirus programme and the firewall directly after the download and > installation processes have been completed....
Rumour has it that an unfirewalled (is that a word?) windows box on the net is likely to take only seconds or minutes to become compromised. I've never tried it(*). Besides, there should be no reason to turn off a firewall for downloading anything - if a firewall is causing that sort of problem, it needs fixing before anything else. (*) My ISP blocks the windows file sharing ports anyway. -- Permission for this mail to be processed by any third party in connection with marketing or advertising purposes is hereby explicitly denied. http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because of spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
