Installing Woody on your parents laptop ? On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 14:01, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Hi all! > > It seems I have to have an Windows XP box inside the firewall for some > time to come... :-( (It's not my network, it's my parent's, and they > have a laptop with XP, their workstation is allready on Woody). > > What I'm worried about is that someone may get into the XP box (by > sending a trojan by e-mail for example), and so have something on the > inside they can use to take down the rest of the network. It would be a > lot more serious if they got to the workstation or the router/firewall > itself, because they are almost always on. My parents know that they > shouldn't have anything of value on the laptop as long as it running > XP. > > The question is really if I could do something in the firewall that > would help isolate the XP box somewhat. Closing outgoing ports (input > ports are all closed), drop certain types of packages, or something > like that? > > Any ideas? > > Cheers, > > Kjetil > -- > Kjetil Kjernsmo > Astrophysicist/IT Consultant/Skeptic/Ski-orienteer/Orienteer/Mountaineer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ OpenPGP KeyID: 6A6A0BBC >
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