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I dont think I've seen this posted here...it's a newbies introduction to firewalls...and I wasnt sure if I ought to post it in Newbies or here,so oh well...keep in mind,its for newbs..and it does give a few links:
http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/u...rewall.en.html
indeed it is good for newbs, although some of it could be in more detail for example:
of course they could have said open up the port, or password protect.... but then again that is still not secure and after all it is for newbsQuote:
But the firewall secures my computer from access to my Windows-shares!
Why are you sharing your harddisk and printers to the entire internet? Why don't you just switch it off?
Nice URL. I like this one from http://www.hn.edu.cn/book/NetWork/Ne...re/ch13_01.htm
It goes into detail about the topic at hand. :) Computernerd22