Re: Clueless newbie to firewalls (sygate) seeks info

From: Jason Edwards (none1_at_invalid.invalid)
Date: 04/28/05 

Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:19:57 +0100

"FYIS.org/estore" <DanlK@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:4270adbe_1@x-privat.org...
> Seeking reference material (URL) that might help to explain incoming hits
> like the one below.
> What is all this stuff being sent to me?

http://www.dhcp.org/

If you block DHCP with a firewall then your IP lease won't renew
automatically.
However you may not notice this since your lease time is 6 days and Windows
98 can't stay up for half that long.

I'd get a better firewall if I were you, preferably an external box, but
there is little reason to install a firewall on Windows 98 provided that
file and print sharing is turned off and no untrusted software is on the
system. To determine whether or not any untrusted software is on the system
you might start with
www.hijackthis.de

Jason

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