Re: Dlink.com.sg intrusion with worm??

mak <mak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why? It's a home computer, it doesn't need any firewall or host-based
packet filter.
are you being cynical?

No. He's right here.

But most people don't know how to configure their computer, that it's
not in danger any more, and Microsoft often makes it very hard to do so.

So with Windows XP SP2, there is a packet filter at last fortunately,
the Windows-Firewall.

For Windows 9x, you don't need one, because configuration is easy. For
Windows 2000 and Windows XP before SP2, there is http://www.dingens.org.

For people, who like a sensible configuration, there is
http://ntsvcfg.de.

Yours,
VB.
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