Securing a stand alone WXP connected to Internet: Best Practices

From: te goody (te_goody@hotmail.com)
Date: 10/24/02 

From: "te goody" <te_goody@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:57:23 -0700

Can any one make some suggestions as to the best practices
for securing a stand alone WXP Pro connected to the
Internet? In particualar, disabling the ability of
connection to the machine from the Internet should be
paramount.

Thanks, te

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