From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 21 14:42:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82CDB37B402 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:42:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 679EF18F3; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:41:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5611218F2; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:41:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:41:56 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell To: "Matthew P. Marino" Cc: chip , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opinions wanted - dealing with file sharing in AOL IM In-Reply-To: <3C4C8F4E.D62FCD63@citystamp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message