[DM-MUG] OS 9 Firewall?

[Darcy Baston]

I did something similar for someone once. I gave him/her a file on how 
to remove his file sharing bind from the tcp/ip stack, and also 
contacted our ISP to contact him/her as well.

Darcy

On Feb 18, 2005, at 2:34 PM, Chris Tyrrell wrote:

>
> You're probably safe on Mac OS 9 without a firewall, but make sure you 
> turn off file-sharing and such. Back when I got my cable modem, I 
> opened Network Browser and found another Mac or two on the network. 
> One particular Mac was wide open, so I dropped a SimpleText document 
> in the Startup Items folder explaining how a malicious person could 
> have wiped the machine clean. I'll never know who's machine that was, 
> but I hope he or she took the time to learn how to secure a machine 
> with a 24/7 connnection.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Chris