How to protect Win98SE on a LAN?

Calman

Can anyone tell me how to protect a computer that's running Win98SE on a LAN with internet access from people looking at your hard drive- and generally- on both a Peer2Peer and Clent/Server LAN, without buying firewall software or maybe using free firewall or other software??

Kali

easy answer: turn off file sharing on your partitions.

better answer: download "tiny personal firewall", best firewall i've ever used and set it so incoming connections are disabled... you get to yoink other ppls files but they dont get to take yours

Baz_

Originally posted by tomo
But if you really want to secure the os go out side to the front of your house rip you phone cable from the wall and make sure you cut your self off from the swicth box that should secure S.E for a week or two when the conflicts come just do a selective startup and pray.

WTF????

seamus

Originally posted by tomo
I think what you are on about is some lame ass kid like bubbles scanning your network with a netbios scanner like legion what not simple way around this put a password on each drive that should sort your problems out. But if you really want to secure the os go out side to the front of your house rip you phone cable from the wall and make sure you cut your self off from the swicth box that should secure S.E for a week or two when the conflicts come just do a selective startup and pray.

Hehe . When tested by security experts, windows NT was given a rating of 4 out of 10 for secureness if it was turned off and unplugged from the phone jack. Seriously. They were deadly serious, and win98se is worse

ecksor

4 out of 10 for "secureness" ?

URL? I've heard of a measurement of security (a 'securaton'), but I've never actually read about it.

corkey

Hi

first thing is turn off shareing printers etc you can down a fireall
for home use for free from [URL=http://]www.zonealarm.com[/URL] try it out it sould help

Cheers
Corkey