OT: SOLVED: What Computer to Take to Coilege and Brand new iTouch for Sale

[Chris Gehlker]

On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote:

> Setup her firewall to exclude all inbound

I've seem this advice quite e few times but I have also  seen the  
opposite: don't bother to block inbound ports where no service is  
enabled. I've always thought the latter advice made more sense  
intuitively. Unless there are things that I don't know about like  
trojans that enable services, I simply can't see any point to blocking  
requests to ports where there is no service running. I'm always  
willing to  learn.
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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to  
those who do not wish to hear it.
-Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902)