Re: XP box inside the firewall
Installing Woody on your parents laptop ?
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 14:01, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> 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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