Re: OT: Educating users about Security

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 13:58:10 -0700
Siri Amrit Kaur <tigerflag@tigerflag.com> wrote:

> We need a way to separate the LAN from the internet in Windows, but my boss
> doesn't know how to do that. He says it's impossible with WinXP Home Edition.

Siri,

Sounds like your Slackware box would do better used if it were turned into a firewall for the entire office. Look at smoothwall[1] or IPCOP[2].

Can you convince your boss of the extra costs involved in sharing one s-l-o-w box fopr e-mail and Internet? How many computers are in the office? Could you take on the added responsiblity of installing Mozilla/Firefox/T'bird and maintaining SpyBot[3] and Ad-Aware[4] on all of them? You've proved you can do it on your own machine.

It's clear you have a problem. You now need to find a way to present it in a way the boss can understand -- hours lost, lower productivity, etc.

If none of this works, I agree with Eric. Family or no, your talents would be better appreciated elsewhere.

Dennisk
[1] http://smoothwall.org/
[2] http://ipcop.org/
[3] http://www.safer-networking.org
[4] http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
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