Hello David
  I can't help but think your concern for needing such security is due to
using windows and IMHO has very little relevance on an OS/2 box.  One has
to get in before one can harvest users and passwords.  Unless one has
aridiculous number of services starting automatically OS/2 is extrememly
secure.  I do understand and agree that sense of nakedness when using
windows but not on an OS/2, Mac, or Linux box.  I have invited hackers to
attempt to get into my WSeB system and even given them my IP so they had a
head start (most bots made for windoze are unable to do more than identify
the OS) and they all fared no better than the bots.  In fact I have even
attacked my own box over my wired network using Linux version of Nessus and
"took the gloves off" (enabled the viscious) tools and still it
could not be overflowed, rootkitted, or hacked in any way whatsoever.  This
is not to say that it isn't good practise to run a firewall and possibly a
port protector but the issues of which you speak I 

do indeed commonly see but only on windows boxes.
Jimmy


 
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