full-disclosure - WinME firewalling

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Message-ID: <3589870000.1068429061@homeeagle.schmehl.fam>
From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: WinME firewalling

--On Sunday, November 09, 2003 20:03:30 -0500 j <frobozz@...tz.us> wrote:
>
> 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.

Get her a $50 (Linksys, SMC, etc.) DSL router.  Set it up for her, and then 
tell her to have fun, put patch and keep her AV software up to date.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu