How safe am I?

[Viperoni]

rogers @home cable
netgear rt314 - no ports open safe for the default ones
2 comps running win2k

how safe am I from hackers?

 

[Keego]

I'd give you 12 minutes tops

 

[Pretender]

post your IP address on every board, forum and "L33T SCRIPT KIDDIE" IRC room, and wait 3 days. That's the ultimate test.

 

[zippy]

I just renamed all of your files! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! I AM A 1337 H@><0R!

No, but really, you should be fine.

 

[goodoptics]

you should be alright if you don't publish your ip address.

 

[Pastore]

If someone wants something on your computer, they WILL get it... You are never 100% safe if you are plugged in...

 

[FreakyOCR]

A hacking difficuly analysis gives the follwing operating systems rating, the higher the better:

Windows 98: 1 (A trivial Joke)

Windows 2000 13,498 (An evening game)

Linux: 328,987 (Don't even bother)

My friend is a network specialist and he tapped into each of the computers on my LAN and etsted them. The Win98 was some crappy computer, the Win2k was a server, and the Linux was a DNS Host.

 

[Keego]

w00t so if I had 24 win2k computers all aligned together and the actual server on the end, it'd be as secure as a linux server

 

[PCResources]

However, FreakyOCR, a freshly installed Linux installation made by somebody who is used to the Win standard will run into problems right away...

You see, Linux has a lot of ports enabled by default, you have to shut them, Win works the other way around...

Now, i am a Linux man myself, but every user should be told about this, a fresh Linux installation that is not properly configured is the easiest system to hack...

Patrick

 

[PCResources]

<< w00t so if I had 24 win2k computers all aligned together and the actual server on the end, it'd be as secure as a linux server >>



Nope, crack the gateway and all of your computers will be accesible...

Patrick

 

[Paulson]

My IP addy isn't that hard to find...

I run my own website off of my public IP, and so far I don't think I've had too many problems, although I'm not quite 100% sure...

 

[jobberd]

<i>Nope, crack the gateway and all of your computers will be accesible...</i>

im sure he was jokin, due to the big smiley face

<i>I run my own website off of my public IP, and so far I don't think I've had too many problems, although I'm not quite 100% sure...</i>

Well, if you're running your own website, that just lists off a whole other group of problems, considering you're running your own daemon. The only thing you risk having happen to you if you expose your ip and have no daemons running is being ip flooded. no daemon = virtually no risk of being &quot;hacked&quot; into

 

[Viperoni]

Thanks for the input guys