General Questions - Network safety Anonymous - Tue Jun 24, 2003 10:17 pm Post subject:
My mom and stepdad are being paranoid about being hacked and won't let me host a server. Is there any way you can show that it is just as easy to hack into our network with the regular settings on the router as with the ones modified to host a server?
Mine GO BOOM - Tue Jun 24, 2003 10:31 pm Post subject:
Hate to suggest this, but Gibson has a semi-useful website that will tell info about your safety a bit by probing ports with his Shields UP! thing. It looks pretty, and your parents will probably trust him if they read his other stuff, so that would be a good start if it shows your system as ok.
BTW, for the record, I personally think Gibson sucks. You'll find better information in the last two links i gave you than the first two, but those are good for parents.
Doggeti - Wed Jun 25, 2003 6:09 am Post subject:
Why tell your parents anyway
No, seriously. You could gat a firewall. that blocks every not verified connections from or to your pc.
Mine GO BOOM - Wed Jun 25, 2003 3:07 pm Post subject:
Most routers support NAT, which will protect you very well. Just don't do forwarding ports to your system for things such as the shares for drives, and you'll be fine.
Neat fact: Look at your incoming connections on your router if it can log them once. You'll get atleast 20 different ip's hitting well known ports a day looking for a unprotected system they can take over.
