This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_004B_01BF5699.125C7F20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I consider this completely non-technical, but I have seen it overlooked = many times. If you have a permanent internet connection like DSL modem, = and you have read\write access to you drives, put a password on those = shares (sorry if you already have, but i missed any mention of it). = Someone I used to share an office with found all the available shares in = plain old Network Neighborhood with his DSL connection. The ISP was new = to setting them up and had never implemented any sort of security to = prevent this. My friend just browsed (not hacked) onto all the computers = that were on his local router, full access, unless they had a password. =20 But as someone else mentioned, Win95/98 is just not secure. =20 and Black Ice and other such programs give you all the dirty details = about such entries. =20 mike ------=_NextPart_000_004B_01BF5699.125C7F20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.2106.6"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>I consider this completely = non-technical, but I=20 have seen it overlooked many times. If you have a permanent internet = connection=20 like DSL modem, and you have read\write access to you drives, put a = password on=20 those shares (sorry if you already have, but i missed any mention of = it).=20 Someone I used to share an office with found all the available shares in = plain=20 old Network Neighborhood with his DSL connection. The ISP was new to = setting=20 them up and had never implemented any sort of security to prevent this. = My=20 friend just browsed (not hacked) onto all the computers that were on his = local=20 router, full access, unless they had a password.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>But as someone else mentioned, = Win95/98 is just=20 not secure.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>and Black Ice and other such = programs give you=20 all the dirty details about such entries.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 = size=3D2>mike</FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_004B_01BF5699.125C7F20--
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