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@Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 10:51:21 -0500
Subject: Re: Nerwork Exposure
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In , on 08/05/03 
   at 10:52 AM, "James C. Gorman, Ph. D."
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>I have a small network (file and print only). I connect to the internet
>through my eCS machine. Are my other two machines (both of which are Win
>98) any more exposed to viruses/attacks when I log onto my network, than
>I am when I am logged off?

Are you using dialup or a broadband connection on the eCS machine?  If
it's dialup and you are using injoy, you are probably fairly safe if you
have a standard injoy NAT setup.  If it's broadband, you should have
either a sw firewall or insert a router/firewall box (linksys, SMC, ...).

 
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