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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>Home and business firewalls<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>Question to ponder:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>OK, on my home LAN I have set up a windows
NT4.0 SP2 box with IIS and SQL Server 7.0. No hot fixes on the box at all. I
run a NESSUS scan and I get over 500 available exploits for this box.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>My outside address is 216.144.100.100 (not
really so please do not attack who ever that is)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>The box on the inside is 192.168.0.100/24<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>Admin password is blank.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>All IPC$ shares are there.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>I can surf the web from the box so it is
fine.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>I have no firewall, just a NAT on the Motorola
Surfboard and no 1 to 1 NATing.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>If you serve NO applications from the
inside of your network (no publicly accessible web server, email server, ftp
server etc...), and you have a NAT router so your addressing on the inside or
your home or business is private (i.e. 192.168.0.x, 10.10.10.x, 172.16.1.x)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>Can you get to it? How?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>Do you still need a firewall? Why?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>Mike<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

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