Re: [tlug] Stopping Spam and viruses

[Graeme Jensen <magic@example.com>]

Sorry guys, that was a typo
I meant to type "Medium", not normal



On Thursday 29 August 2002 12:55 pm, Jonathan Byrne wrote:
> On 8/29/2002, "Scott Robbins" <scottro@example.com> wrote:
> >On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:40:31AM +0900, Jonathan Byrne wrote:
> >> The settings I've always seen in RH are high, medium, and none.  What
>
> does
>
> >> "normal" mean?  If it means none, that would be bad.
> >
> >No, that's not the case.  None would be the same as if you did ipchains
> >-F
>
> That's my point exactly.  The available choices are "High, Medium, and
> None." None is "no firewalling" so I'm trying to find out where this
> "normal" figure came from.  I believe Mandrake has a setting called that,
> which provides a little bit of firewalling, but the RH canned choices are
> High, Medium, None, not "High, Medium, Normal."
>
> >XP now has a builtin firewall.  I forget what it does.  Err, I guess it
> >blocks stuff.
>
> It's sort of a black box, but you want to avoid XP.  Besides all of the
> existing reasons to not use doze, the licensing agreement changes that come
> with the XP Service Pack and (IIRC) the latest Windows Media Player are
> tanatmount to having you just box up yoru PC, tape a note with the admin
> password on top, and ship it to Redmond.  Maybe they'll let you use it once
> in a while if you're a good little drone.
>
> J
>
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