On Sunday 22 February 2004 7:10 am, ec wrote:
> Let me explain the 'paranoia' that she has. First, she
> also has a windoze 98 machine that will be online, and
> it contains some (to her) very important stuff. She is
> writing a novel on it and doesn't want that info to
> somehow be copied by a hacker. And two, years ago,
> someone broke into another machine and wiped about two
> years work out as it wasn't secured enough.
>
> Probably, since I didn't know about the NAT (nor
> understand that term) firewall already there, I
> probably will hook up the net to that avoiding messing
> with smoothwall initially. That is, IF I can disable
> the wireless probing into it. How do you do that?
First off with your old dial up account you did not have NAT as you were not
behind a router! There are several ways to become secure with your wireless
but keep in mind to become 100% secure you will have to lose the connectivity
to the net. After the router is connected you have to log in to the router
via
http://the address. Then you may disable wireless altogether or you can
change some simple settings. First disable ssid broadcasting. This tells the
world who you are! 2nd set encryption. 128bit is best but speed will be
sacraficed. I personally use 64 bit, and am happy, remember they can crack
128 bit encryption now, just takes a bit longer, however the loose pacets
will be long dead before they crack them. 3rd tell the router "who" is
allowed to connet to the router via wireless. This is done by telling the
router what MAC addresses are valid. Once this is done you are set! I would
use zone alarm fire wall for windows 98 and you can get it free via download.
Do a google search for it, I don't remember the address. After the firewall
is installed, turn off most of the incoming tcp, udp, icmp and NetBios
services. Use common sense, and read the details of the service or you will
lose connectivity. Also if not already installed I would get anti-virus
installed and make sure you protect incoming and outgoing email automaticly.
This is not a rocket science, just go slowly and make small changes. If you
make an error, it is easy to then go back and repair. Unfortunately with
win98 there are many vulnerabilities, so I would also consider
www.updates.microsoft.com to get all the updates available.
>
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