On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 02:54 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Disable your Windows firewall temporarily
Ye gads! This is the worst OS in the world to do that to. Dropping Windows pants for a second is enough for it to get rogered by marauding bastards on the net. I've seen a friend's PC get rooted within about four seconds of connecting to his ISP. He had to reformat to remove it, the anti-virus software wouldn't let him change the files that it let the miscreant abuse. And he got done, again, when he reconnected after the re-install. I nearly wet myself laughing when he did it three times in a row. *FIRST* examine the Windows firewall, see if you can understand it, see if you can see if it's going to block the port you're trying to use, see if you can reprogram it to let that port through. *THEN* if you have to disable a firewall, isolate that computer from dangerous environments (big LANs, ISPs), before doing so. Before anybody ever says "temporarily disable your firewall," they should first say the other things I've mentioned in the prior two paragraphs. It's bad advice, particularly without warnings. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
