But with the Linksys WRT54G router/firewall I am using (and it was the 
same with the earlier non-wireless one I had), nobody can even tell that 
a computer exists at my "public" IP address. At least, that is what 
Gibson's Shields Up! and Probe My Ports! (www.grc.com) tell me.

Doesn't that make me even safer?

-=-
Alan


On 06/30/04 05:46 pm enorbet put fingers to keyboard and launched the 
following message into cyberspace:

>   While I agree with you that OS/2 is perhaps THE safest OS on the net,
> and my belief was confirmed when I did exactly what you outlined ( I
> went to a Linux hackers IRC channel and invited everybody in to attack
> me and nobody could even after one guy ran software for a solid 20
> minutes seeking exploitable code ) but much of that depends on what
> ports you have open and what services you have running, AFAIK.  The
> default install has very few services running until you set them up. 
> Once you do, you are at least available, if not open.  Hmmmmmm does
> anyone know of any kind of port sentry for OS/2 or eCS ?


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