Re: Protect and survive

["Powell Andy / AMS" <andy.powell@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I've been looking into ADSL and Cable connections to the Internet with some
interest. Now that Homevision, Comfort, Homeseer etc offer the ability to
'control your home from anywhere', I've been thinking about the whole
situation.

I've,  basically, got a couple of questions...

1. Is anyone using ADSL/Cable for 24x7 connection to the internet

2. We all know that there are wan***s out there who take great pleasure in
hacking websites, mailservers etc so what are people doing to protect
themselves. I've come across ZoneAlarm (fairly basic) and Wingate -
although
as far as Wingate is concerned one of my collegues told me that there are
so
many hacks and cracks for  Wingate that he wouldn't touch it with a barge
pole. Anyone offer opinions and/or alternatives? I kow we'd probably all
want Firewall-1 or something similar but that's just too expensive. Oh just
one more thing, please don't suggest I install Linux - please.

3. Is anyone running a webserver and mail server and something like
Comfort/Homevision/Homeseer web interface? Are you running them on separate
machines, or are you using one machine for the lot... (I just know someone
is going to mention Linux here ;-)   ).

A.





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