Re: Need recommendations on security

Frog Prince wrote:
> "Mike Easter"

>> so that you won't be sticking your nose in my
>> system on a regular basis."

Okay, that tack was wrong.

> Not  a problem with respect to access to her private data as I've
> power of attorney for her bills, her health care and designated
> executor of her estate.

How about 'so that I won't be so much trouble to you all the time'  ?

>> That's telling me that she isn't at all competent to be managing her
>> security issues entirely on her own or 'automatically'.
>
> She has ZERO clue when it comes to computer, the internet and
> security.

> FWIW she gets a few spam emails and the occasional offensive porn
> email on the account I've set up for her to use in the 'wild' but
> nothing more. She does pay attention and while she sends more than an
> occasional joke/cartoon to her circle of friends she does so with
> UNDISCLOSED RECIPIENTS in the TO: field and the personal addresses in
> the BCC.

Good for bcc.

> From post in .geeks  it seems that the free stuff is more than
> adequate and I've now a task to convince her of that eventuality.  If
> I'm wrong I presume someone here will correct me.

I still think that if she has a network of her desk computer and her
laptop which you intend to put on her own system instead of yours, that
she would be better off with a hardware NAT device switchrouter rather
than just the software personal intrusionextrusion socalled firewall.

That is also the case for the single computer connected 'always on'
facing the internet on a cable modem which is not networked to the
laptop.  The address translation of the NAT device is a very powerful
feature aiding in the security of the box compared to just the software
personal 'firewall'.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin