You can verify the exact time elsewhere, but I remember hearing that the
average time from an internet connection being established to the first ping
(or similar) from a hacker is a few minutes... so dial-up users are strongly
recommended to have a firewall.
br
Jez
On 12/4/06, James King <jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Unless the slip/ppp or other server at the ISP end has a firewall the
> only difference between broadband and dial up is the speed you can get
> attacked. The point of a firewall is to stop programs connecting to
> certain services on your machine and to stop programs anauthorised
> programs on your machine connecting to other computers. This can
> regardless of how the internet connection is implemented.
> James
>
> Geilfuss Charles wrote:
> > Stu,
> > I'm hardly an expert in such things, but if you are using
> > dial-up I don't think you need a firewall (but it won't hurt); I never
> > had one until I moved up to broadband.
>
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