--- Rony Bill ronbilly@hotpop.com wrote:
Dear Luggers,
Cable internet is a reality that one cannot ignore but it also has its problems of security. Viruses and trojans keep getting in frequently and its quite a nuiscance having to get rid of them often on the same machine. A firewall is not very usefull here as it is in dialup. To access the net, the gateway traffic has to be allowed, so that brings in the unwanted elements too. Being a LAN based system, there is unauthorised traffic from other infected machines too. The clients are all on windows as linux is still not very popular. However, the principles of security should be similar.
So what is the way to keep the client machine clean even if the gateway is not so?
Regards,
Rony.
The obvious ones that come to mind are: a) Installing an antivirus program and regularly updating them. b) Put a hardware firewall between your PC/LAN and the External Cable LAN. A Good one at the consumer end would be the dlink/netgear/linksys type of wired/wireless router+switch+accessPoint with built in firewall.
c) Avoid IE and Outlook/Express. Try Firefox and Mozilla. Or better still since u have cable now, dont check mail via a desktop client.
d) Just switch to linux dude. its not half as bad as they make it out to be. Ok, so you cant do everything with it easily, but i'd rather do some of the things all the time, than all of the things some of the times. :)
hope this helps. -abhishek
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