[muglo] Re: Firewall Protection for Dial-Up System?



"Eric D." wrote:

> I practice very unsafe computing (virus protection, what's that?) and I've
> not had a virus in _over_ 10 years (the last virus I was infected with was
> in 1989 and that was something like MDEF B)........
>
> Macs are pretty immune to both viruses and to firewall problems. ......
>
> OS X is so new that I've not heard anything about computer viruses......
> So, the short of it is: if you're running pre-OS X on a dial-up a firewall
> is a waste of $$$, CPU cycles and stability.
>
> If you're on an always-on connection, a firewall *can* be a useful thing
> (provided you know what to do with it) in that it can prevent such things as
> "port sniffers" from sniffing out your computer or denial of service attacks
> being launched against your computer.
>
> l8r, eric.

    Good Lord Eric,
    We actually agree on something!!! BTW I loved your Latin based English
lesson.
TTFN,
TeeC




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