Re: [tlug] Stopping Spam and viruses

["Jonathan Q" <jq@example.com>]

On 8/29/2002, "Graeme Jensen" <magic@example.com> wrote:

>Yeah that would be good but I still need the windows box for typing
Japanese.
>I Haven't configured Red Hat to do that yet.

Red Hat comes configured for that out of the box.  All I have to do is select
the Japanese locale, hit shift-space, and I'm good.  If yours doesn't do that,
attempts to configure it might be the reason why :-)

To elaborate a little more, if you install the Japanese language capability,
it starts (IIRC) both Canna and FreeWNN by default, and kinput2.  All you have
to do is type.


>with firewalling.  The router/hub supposedly has a built in firewall, but I
>don't want to rely on that ,without knowing about it, as my only defense. 

Multiple layers of defense are a cornerstone of network security.  To achieve
that, read the docs for your router and find out how to use its filters, then
setup some firewall rules there.  Next, setup firewalling on your Linux box
and also disable all unnecessary services (if you don't know what this means,
ask).  If you're totally unfamiliar with ipchains (Red Hat's default
firewalling) Red Hat includes a text-mode graphics program called lokkit that
will get you started.

>did choose normal for firewall setup during installation of Red Hat 7.2.

The settings I've always seen in RH are high, medium, and none.  What does
"normal" mean?  If it means none, that would be bad.


WRT Win 98, there are some firewall solutions you can buy, but none of them
get much respect. That's partly because they suck, and partly because it's not
unusual for people  using them to send "hacking reports" to their ISP, showing
they are being "attacked" by their localhost and demanding the ISP do
something about it :-p

However, they are all that's available if you want to run localhost
firewalling on a Win9x machine.  A better solution is to have a *nix box
standing in front of it and providing really strict firewalling for it.

Jonathan

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