Digital BW, The Print

Andre writes:

> Without proper safegards, internet intrusions are unnoticeable.

Without opening the machine to attacks, they are impossible.  The
machine has to respond to incoming traffic.  By default, desktops should
be configured to respond to nothing coming in from the outside world.

> Your computer can be hijacked and rented out in sabotage-for-hire
> rackets without your knowlege to spammers, fraudsters, digital
> saboteurs...

No unsolicited incoming net traffic reaches my desktop machines.  Not
only is it all stopped at the firewall, but virtually all services that
might answer incoming traffic are shut down, even on my NT server.
There are also many Net services that I simply do not use because they
are not secure enough to please me.