https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=1590&p=23600#p23600
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Landman
Monday, 01 August 2005, 10:54 PM


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[quote="pangor";p="23594"]That is pretty much how I have it configured.  An old PC setup as a router, the external connections is via a PPP link, ethernet internal using a private IP's on the LAN.  The router has a nice packet filtering firewall that blocks unauthorized traffic from outside and also block undesired traffic inside from visiting the net.  The router box also runs my caching server for external DNS resolutions.  No compilers or editors and onty limited scripting support, on the router box.

It is the suprises that come in from email, newsgroups articles, and the web, that concern me.  I don't want to have to run each of them though virus detectors and scrubers, so Linux with binaries configured and compiled by me seem safer for the internet.

Pangor[/quote]

Well, I am not trying to offend you but it sounds like your a little paranoid. I run a cheap netgear router on a cable internet connection 24/7 and I have never had an issue. I am sure there have been port scans on the wan side of my router but whatever I am on a non routable subnet on the lan side. only requested trafic comes through. Recently, for the sake of my electric bill I set my XP machine to hibernate after a couple hours. If you're worried about a virus, disable your macros in any office program, word, excel, access etc. And don't bother with any unknown attachments and you should be good to go. If you want to take it one step further. Download the "microsoft windows malicious software removal tool" off the windows site and have it run a batch file in the startup directory on every boot. the only downside is it is updated monthly. (second tues of every month). It is a known list of every "Windows Killer" virus thats out there. You would have to write the batch file monthly. 

No insult intended pangor. I know your pretty smart when it comes to this stuff, I just was trying to help. If what you have there is working for you then by all means, if it isn't broke, don't fix it.  :thumb: