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From: adam-fulldisclosure at gmi.com (adam morley) Subject: WinME firewalling On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 08:03:30PM -0500, j wrote: > I'm interested in opinions from list participants - all my work is with > linux, like a firewalling linux bridge on a win/lin mixed network. > > Given: A technologically-impaired grandmother with winME. Any change > of OS would be psychologically damaging... (WinXP 'kindergarten crayon' > default theme would probably induce seizures... ;^) Grandma now gets a > DSL connection, and as per the ISP has this shiny new DSL modem plugged > into said WinME machine, both now powered up ~24 hours per day, an open > orifice with a target painted on it. > > What software firewall solution is truly suitable for Grandma? As > invisible to the user as possible, of course, since this Grandma doesn't > understand most of the 'little window thingies' that spontaneously > appear already. (you know at least one - the manic 'ok' clicker...) > Additional hardware of any kind is not permitted, this has to be a > software solution under WinME. Why no additional hardware? Is the DSL modem a USB modem or something? When you said no additonal hardware, it immediately reminded me of this: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8505038381.html just because when I saw it I thought it was real neat, and I'd had the same idea for little VPN widgets for mobile officer workers. That said, I ran Zone Alarm for someone and they liked it, but it had popups when certain apps tried to connect to the network which they really didn't like. I too have trouble recommending software firewalls for Windows, but I'd look at the following articles at PC magazine, because PC magazine is synonymous with Windows for me: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1370707,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,646255,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,646256,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,55367,00.asp One of the software ones in those articles must run on ME (hopefully) -- adam
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