Thank you Jerry.

Tom


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>Tom,
>Get yourself a cheap 486 with about 16MB of memory (more if you want to run X windows), a CDROM and a couple of NICs.
>Download the Mandrake 8.2 ISO set (3 CDs) and burn'm. They are free. Attach your cable modem to the eth0 NIC and run a C5 cable from eth1 NIC to a passive hub. Boot the CD1 ISO and from the menu select 'firewall'. It will set up that 486 as a very nice firewall with either ipchains or iptables. Setup your filter rules and assign IP addresses to the computers attached to the passive hub, etc.... Sendmail rules can filter out bad email and send the rest to the right users on the network, who can use any OS they want, so your VFP WinXX development box has an internet connection and freedom from viruses and worms. A big help is to turn off html email.... make it plain text. URL can be 'hot linked' by selecting them and then clicking the right mouse button, which brings up a menu. One option is to open the URL with a browser. When myself, my wife and my son where sharing a single DSL connection I used this method. Everyone was plugged into the passive hub and surfed the web
>like they were using the DSL alone. No speed penalty was noticed. Each sent and received email as if they were the only computer on the DSL connection.
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>A single computer solution: my Toshiba RR cable modem is connected to my 3COM905B TX ethernet card which is setting in this 1 GHz Athlon running Mandrake 8.2. During the install (but I could have done it at any time afterward) I selected added personal firewall option to my KDE graphical workstation option. Not a single port on this box is visible from the internet, according to several port scanners. It's usually up 24/7. My KMail filters dump spam in the trash. In fact, in the five years I've been running Linux I've never had a single virus or worm fire, nor have I ever been hacked, and my PCs have always been live on the Internet 24/7. I've played around with the SirCam virus a bit... you know, disecting it to see what was inside, etc...
>JLK
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>>>FYI... Zone Alarm is better than nothing..but it's also the laughing-stock of all hackers, it's insanely easy to beat.
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>>>>>http://security.tombom.co.uk/shatter.html
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>>>>Al;
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>>>>I am truly delighted and so happy to have just installed ZoneAlarm last Friday evening. For the last few days I have felt "secure". Perhaps we should turn off the computers and just write in the sand or dirt (whichever one is available).
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>>>>Having enjoyed a bit of time in the United States Air Force Security Service, I am convinced that security does not and never will exist in the true sense. There is always a methodology to circumvent security. It is truly a game of “out doing the other”.
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>>>>Thank you for returning me to reality. I will await the next event with expectation and not be surprised.
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>>>>Tom