From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 22 10:12: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.27in.tv (roc-66-24-112-7.rochester.rr.com [66.24.112.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E89037B402 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:12:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.27in.tv (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0MIC1120585; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 13:12:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from 27in.tv (roc-66-24-112-7.rochester.rr.com [66.24.112.7]) by mail.27in.tv (8.11.6/8.11.6av) with SMTP id g0MIBxU20576; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 13:11:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from 216.153.202.7 (SquirrelMail authenticated user cjm2) by www1.27in.tv with HTTP; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 13:12:00 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <2453.216.153.202.7.1011723120.squirrel@www1.27in.tv> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 13:12:00 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Opinions wanted - dealing with file sharing in AOL IM From: "C J Michaels" To: In-Reply-To: References: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Cc: , , X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.4 [cvs]) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick Hamell said: > >> > One of my sons asked me today, about opening a port on the firewall >> > so he and some friends from school can share files. I'm a bit leary >> > of opening a port on the firewall. I know my freebsd boxes will be >> > safe from windoze viruses by >> >> Say NO. If he complains, un-plug the computer for about a month. FTP >> will look >> pretty good. Let me guess, MP3's??? I wouldn't trust AOL IM features. >> If he's > > Say Heck no... IM is the number two place Virus' come from these > days... > > Rick Parenting tips aside, I would suggest setting up a socks 5 server, there's one available in the ports collection. -- Chris "I'll defend to the death your right to say that, but I never said I'd listen to it!" -- Tom Galloway with apologies to Voltaire To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message