🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 05 Sep 2000 06:36:15 GMT, "Gordon Mosley"
<glm443@earthlink.net> wrote:


>You don't go into any detail on how you tested this. Did you use the same
>computer both times? Windows PC's are fairly secure by default unless you've
>changed some network configuration items that make it less so. If you used 2
>different PC's or different software then the test is completely invalid. I
>use Earthlink and grc.com shows my computer to be secured.

	Well, maybe earthlink means to shape up after all,
and has done something real in the week or so since I
checked. I'll have to see if I can get around to checking
again.

	I don't pretend to be anybody's alpha nerd. Here's
what I did.  I signed this machine (the only one I've been
on in months, or am likely to be -- and it's yet untweaked
wrt grc) onto my home earthlink account, and did both the
tests at the grc site. That took almost no time, and both
tests reported big holes. (I didn't write their names down.)

	Then I disconnected from the Net, signed immediately
onto my home radix account (same machine, same obscene,
user-inimical muckeyslop, and even same browser), and did
both tests again, first thing,  from there. This took much
longer, and got reports both times that grc said were as
good as it could give.

	I run two browsers all the time, btw : one for the
web forums I frequent, things I keep bookmarked, and so on ;
and the other mostly just for clicking on URLs in email. I
don't remember which one I did the tests with -- IE or NS.
Would that matter??

	Once I manage to teach myself enough linux, of
course I'll have a firewall of my own. Meanwhile, with only
dial-up accounts anyway, I disconnect a lot, and always shut
clear down when I'm not going to be using the machine a
while. I may still be a feasible stalking horse, but at
least I can manage to be one of the least convenient and
reliable ones out there!


--
RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger, PhD
karhumhammas (at) lserv.com (new)
Better to be a gamma geek with linux
than an alpha nerd chained to muckeyslop.