[CentOS] Internet connection sharing?
m.roth at 5-cent.us
m.roth at 5-cent.us
Tue Mar 8 19:47:22 UTC 2011
compdoc wrote:
>>Windows since XP SP2 has had a perfectly decent firewall
>>built in and enabled by default.
>
> Selinux is installed by default too, and usually the first thing that's
> disabled when something isn't working, just as it is with windows users.
>
> You are right about one thing: It's not 1998. It's a lot less safe now
> than it was then.
Yup. Last time I saw a story about someone hanging an unprotected Windows
box on the 'Net, late last year, I think, it was down from 12 min to 5 min
before it was attacked.
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