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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	As a lot of us spend far too long online than we should it may be a good idea to instal a firewall to help reduce your risks. There are a lot of good software firewall out there and some of the best are even available for free so there is no reason not to try them out ;) We would recommend that you also seriously consider a hardware solution. --------------------------- Relevant links: [url=http://www.free-firewall.org]Free-Firewall.org[/url] - impressive collection of free firewalls for PC, Mac and Linux. [url=http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Security/Firewalls/Products/Personal_Firewalls/]Google directory[/url] [url=http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/firewall-seen.html]FAQ: Firewall Forensics (What am I seeing?)[/url] - a great resource which explains what you are actually seeing in your frewall logs. [url=http://grc.com]Gibson Research Corporation[/url] - use the ShieldsUP! online testing to test your vulnerability before and after you instal a firewall. GRC has received quite a bit of [url=http://www.grcsucks.com]bad press[/url] recently - for other sources of information see: [url=http://cable-dsl.home.att.net/index.htm#CheckSecurity]Navas Cable Modem/DSL Tuning Guide: Check Your Security[/url] [url=http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2422273-1,00.html]Online Security Services[/url] --------------------------- Relevant threads: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum1/HTML/005728.html]Why would my ISP be scanning my ports?[/url] [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Archives/Archive-000002/HTML/20020207-1-003142.html]FIREWALLS--NEED 411....[/url] - discussion of hradware firewalls. ____________________ [internallink=4626]Emperor[/internallink] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Emperor]Emperor [/url] on Mon 19-Aug-2002)[/i][/small] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Emperor]Emperor [/url] on Thu 06-Mar-2003)[/i][/small] Loading...
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