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RE: Recommended minimum security for making a PC accessible over the
Internet...?
- Subject: RE: Recommended minimum security for making a PC
accessible over the Internet...?
- From: "Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:58:22 +0100
>The only port left permanately open is the remote management port of
the >router which lets me open/close the other ports as required.
Yikes!
Well, unplug that one for a start! - remote management of a router from
the outside is a *baaaaad* idea.
Anyone probing my firewall (please don't) would find that I have port
25 open for SMTP email inbound - it's PATed across to the Exchange 2003
server, which is regularly updated.
Beyond that... I use VPN for everything - I make a VPN connection into
my Vigor 2600V, then normally TS into my SBS server (or use OWA's
webmail)...
The thing I guess is that you won't *ever* be 100% safe - the only 100%
safe PC has no network connection and two armed guards, and event
then...
For the most part, I'd say keep the inbound connections to a minimum
(like using a VPN for everything else) and make sure that anything that
is open is patched and checked regularly.
I.
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