Re: Need recommendations on security

"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 a possibility but we're over there on the slightest whim regardless.
If she sees my light on early in the morning I'll get a phone call 'biscuits
are just coming out of the oven and coffee is hot'

| >> 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'.

What do you recommend in this regard.

BTW there is no such thing as 'ALWAYS ON' as this lady is a product of the
Depression and waste nothing.  As example she will often gift us with
homemade preserves etc (did I mention she is a terrific scratch cook?) but
if I don't bring back the Kerr Jars in a timely fashion I'm put on
'allocation'.