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Skriven 2006-10-04 23:34:03 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 21950 av CHARLES ANGELICH (1:123/140)
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In article <23916$WIN95@JamNNTPd>,
 "CHARLES ANGELICH -> ALAN ZISMAN" <1:123/140> wrote:

 EV>>> If I am reading you correctly, I would put a Wired LAN
 EV>>> PCMCIA card in my W95 laptop, as I was talking to Jeff,
 EV>>> and plug it into one of a Wireless routers 8-pin
 EV>>> connectors to keep my use of the computer(s) safe?

 EV>>> I'll look in XPs' Help to get educated a bit more on that
 EV>>> thar NAT.

 AZ>> Note that 'safe' is always a relative term... NAT is a
 AZ>> basic sort of protection from hackers, but won't help one
 AZ>> bit if you open a virus-bearing email attachment or
 AZ>> download a 'free' application that installs a dozen pieces
 AZ>> of adware/spyware... and if the spyware starts reporting
 AZ>> back, the router's NAT will not block the outgoing
 AZ>> communication, as Zone Alarm might.

 AZ>> (Though you mentioned using ZA on your W95 laptop in an
 AZ>> earlier message)... so thinking of your wired router as an
 AZ>> 'extra firewall' is a good way to consider it... an added
 AZ>> layer of protection, but not a replacement for other
 AZ>> security).

 CA> Wouldn't the least complicated and least expensive solution be
 CA> to install M$ VPC with a W98SE minimal install plus Opera and
 CA> then access the internet using that? W98SE is not as much of a
 CA> 'target' and if you maintain a copy of the VPC files when it
 CA> gets infected you just delete those infected virtual drives and
 CA> recopy the 'good' virtual drives back again. Seems much less
 CA> stressful to me. :-)


That's one way to do it... perhaps a better solution, both because it's
more secure than 98SE and because it's pre-packaged and ready to go
would be to install the free VMWare Player and download and use what
VMWare calls its 'Browser Appliance' which is actually a VMWare drive
image of a minimalist Ubuntu installation with Firefox...

Use the Browser Appliance for all Internet access and you're pretty safe.

Mind you, you can probably run a Win98SE virtual session with less of a
RAM footprint than a Ubuntu virtual session.

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