Re: Guest user logon on my computer

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 10/09/04 

Date: 9 Oct 2004 00:14:16 GMT

donnie <donnie@queyosepa.net> writes:

]On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 23:06:19 -0700, "TopDog" <dlh7_at_yahoo_dot_com>
]wrote:

]>Download Service Pack 2 and activate the Windows Firewall
]>
]###################
]I don't like software firewalls very much. If it's not a dialup
]situation, I prefer a router

And how do you think your router firewall works? Magic?
It is also software on a computer.

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