XP box inside the firewall
Hi all!
It seems I have to have an Windows XP box inside the firewall for some
time to come... :-( (It's not my network, it's my parent's, and they
have a laptop with XP, their workstation is allready on Woody).
What I'm worried about is that someone may get into the XP box (by
sending a trojan by e-mail for example), and so have something on the
inside they can use to take down the rest of the network. It would be a
lot more serious if they got to the workstation or the router/firewall
itself, because they are almost always on. My parents know that they
shouldn't have anything of value on the laptop as long as it running
XP.
The question is really if I could do something in the firewall that
would help isolate the XP box somewhat. Closing outgoing ports (input
ports are all closed), drop certain types of packages, or something
like that?
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Kjetil
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Kjetil Kjernsmo
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