[rescue] firewalling windoze crap

Thu Aug 21 20:48:59 CDT 2003

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:38:35PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> ZoneAlarm is your friend.  :)  The *only* things on my Windows boxen
> granted permission to access the Internet are Mozilla and some of our
> games.  I download new Windows patches once from a Linux box, then
> install them manually on each of the GameOS boxen.

True.

My LAN's gateway is a Sun SS5, and its pretty strict.

Nothing in, only responses to originating requests.

On top of that, I disallow some outgoing spyware, but I don't know what
all I should block yet.  A lot of times I simply find a "crack" and
disable things like that.

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