Theos-Talk Archives (July 2001 Message tt00001)

With the increased instances of viruses and computer attacks by penetrating 
our computers, I just installed a firewall and lo and behold someone from 
Italy was trying to get into my machine connected via regular dialup 
telephone connection. And the attempt was blocked by the firewall. 
Incidentally, the ISP I was using was the target of a denial of service 
attack which drowned the system and no traffic could be transmitted.

The moral of this story is that a virus program combined with a firewall is 
necessary for all machines especially Windows machines. A free firewall 
such as Zonealarm would be quite effective.

___MKR___