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[Kirk Wood]

By the way any port can be instantly closed with ipchains. Again the
general method is:

ipchains -A input -p tcp -d your_ip_address:port -j DENY

This will drop the packet as if it never occured. You can change the last
part to REJECT in which case an icmp message is sent back to the
originating host. But if you DENY the packet a port scanner won't see your
machine. Don't rely on this to say you won't be attacked. It just lowers
your profile.

By the way, while ATT at Home is less secure then some ISPs, the internet
in general is a hostile world. If you really want to secure against it cut
the connection. Next would be to find an ISP that will place you behind
their firewall.

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Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net