From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 22 10:28:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2552937B6CA for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:28:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org id 12NK2w-00078E-00; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:28:30 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA12063 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:28:29 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:28:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: security question (firewalls) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quick question: i read that a guy with a DSL connection running Linux found he was an unwilling participant in some hacker attacks, or at least could have been. Apparently someone hacked his box and left a script there. For frequent/extended ppp connections from my laptop, should i consider going through the trouble of setting up a firewall? -=> jm <=- Please CC me on all replies ------------------------------------------------------- "The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very, very brightly." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message