[NCSA-discuss] firewall for WinXP

[Jeff The Riffer]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Jeff The Riffer wrote:
>> If you mean, can you put your Windows laptop on the Internet with a 
>> firewall blocking all ports, sure.
> Actually I wanted to know if it was safe to do so.

As long as you've made sure to get ALL of the current Microsoft updates 
installed, you should be good to go.

As an added measure of security you can go into the Services snap-in and 
disable some unnecessary services:

 	Alerter
 	Messenger
 	Routing and Remote Access


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