RE: Internet Cafe

From: Sarbjit Singh Gill (ssgill@gilltechnologies.com)
Date: 01/20/03

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    From: "Sarbjit Singh Gill" <ssgill@gilltechnologies.com>
To: "Matti Haack" <m.haack@haack-it.de>, <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:56:47 +0800

    I had a friend who ran a cyber cafe by a beach town in Malaysia using a
    server running NAT32 (www.nat32.com) and 56k dial-up and had 12 client
    machines running w98/w2k/wme. The speed was pretty good for normal web mails
    and light to average surfing! Only when i asked him what he was using for
    connectivity that he told me it was 56k. I was shocked because i had some
    good bandwidth doing my regular internet access stuff on one of the PCs in
    the cyber cafe.

    Cheers
    Gill

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Matti Haack [mailto:m.haack@haack-it.de]
    Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 7:56 PM
    To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    Subject: Re: Internet Cafe

    > Anyways, anyone got any suggestions/comments on what I really have to
    > look out for? I'm thinking it should be reasonably secure, but in places
    > like this you always have the added risc of people wanting to damage the
    > OS/system or use it as a place from which to attack others.
    Install a personal firewall. (www.kerio.com)

    I suggest kerios Personal firewall for some reasons:
    - You can create a policy file on one maschine and copy it to all the
    others
    - The Firewall administration can be looked down with a password
    - It calculates MD5 Chekcsums for all used applications, so that you
    can't rename a forbidden aplication to a allowed and pass the firewall
    with this.
    - It knows trusted adress groups, maybe to allow some more network Traffic
    inside your cafe (for games etc.)

    Allow only IE and whatever you like to allow for your customers.
    Switch off learning mode, set a password. So noone can use newly
    installed Internet Software like Kazaa or a massmailer.

    with best regards
         Matti Haack

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