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Date:	Mon, 26 Jul 2004 06:11:39 PDT7
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
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Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Help with netstat -s

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On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 23:10:13 PDT7, Steven Levine wrote:

>I'm curious as to what you expect to accomplish by this.

I've read several articles on computer security, lately. One of them is:

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,115939,00.asp

Perhaps you should read it. One of the points that the article made was that you need
protection on the inside of your LAN, in case an adware or spyware program, of which
you are not aware, attempts to contact someone outside to upload mined personal
information (now, I know that this is mostly a Windows problem, not OS/2-ECS).
Nevertheless, the article makes the point that a good software firewall (which I have)
can protect you against such threats. It points out that antivirus and anti-spyware
programs often fail, for a time, against new or altered threats.

My Injoy firewall allows me to configure it on many levels. For example, I can block
outgoing communications to all ports, except those that I know and want (FTP, SMTP,
WWW, etc.). And that's what I'm attempting to do.

Remember, I will REALLY want to do this on my Windows computers.
HCM

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