No firewall, no nothing?
Talking about this, I wonder if your antyvirus software saved your
conputer
at least once, can You tell me?
Depends what you mean by "saved". Sure, my anti-virus has flagged plenty of
garbage being sent my way. As part of my job I wrote some code that gets
executed by an Exchange machine that processes roughly 2000 emails a day,
and anytime it encounters something it doesn't recognize it automatically
forwards it to me for manual analysis. Did I ever get infected though, no,
never. Neither did the Exchange machine, which has been in operation for
over 4 years. You're not suggesting that having a virus sitting in a
mailbox as a message attachment qualifies as "being infected", right?
On my network (Windows shares), there are
thousands of computers and a big number of infected.
Absolutely, I consider Intranets and LANs to be hostile environments,
especially when there's a few thousand machines hooked up to it and well
beyond my control. In this situation, a good dose of paranoia is just
common sense.
The latest viruses
available on the Internet are spreading around. Just as you mentioned: No
fire-wall, and no Antivirus software, but I havent noticed problems, slow
performance or memory leaks.
It doesn't take an awful lot of computing power to send a 40KB file
over the LAN or SMTP or what not. You think you would "notice" everything a
decent anti-virus program is better positioned at identifying?
Seriously, you need an anti-virus. No "but"s or "if"s about it.
It's not a good practice to post private addresses in a clear form not
just
e-mails, but all kind of private addresses. This is my advice.
The fallacy I was trying to point out is that by scrambling a URL you're
avoiding problems. Automated processes such as viruses and worms don't care
about your machine's domain name or directory structure; as long as they get
*some* sort of response (which they'll do by IP address) they'll start
hammering it. By scrambling a URL you're only preventing people from easy
access, and not accomplishing much else. By posting your scrambled URL and
instructions to "decode" it, your machine is effectively just as much of a
target for a human as it would be if you posted the URL in plain text.
You're just scramling your URL for the wrong reasons. If you really,
absolutely, positively need a private folder, you don't post it in Usenet,
scrambled or not. Do you really care whether Google indexes the page you
sent me?
MY advice is to get a decent firewall and anti-virus, download the patches
as they become available, and you won't have to act so paranoid.
By the way You didn't tell me if You like my web site?
I thought I'd do you a favor by keeping quiet.
Let's just put it this
way: I'm far from being color-coordinated, but ...my eyes!
The baby
blue and pink/purple scheme clashes...badly. The main page is also quite
minimalistic and hard to navigate (though that could be me not
knowing...Russian?)
Have You got a server on the Internet? I mean a piece of hardware that's
on
Your own.
I personally don't, but know plenty of people who do and work for a company
that can use all the exposure it can get. They all get pinged externally
every once in a while--that's become the norm and to be expected. However,
nobody's ever managed to do any harm of any sort.
