Do you cringe when a new vulnerability is announced in Windows? Do you sit idlely behind a standard all-in-one firewall/router that you picked up from a computer store? Did you know that you could be vulnerable to hacking?
I wrote a how-to for a Linux firewall utilizing an old computer and posted it to my favorite ‘for free’ tech support site, http://daniweb.com. Hopefully, this will help some of you that need it.
LinuxBlog Forum Tip: http://linux-blog.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8#8
Daniweb Tutorial Direct: http://daniweb.com/tutorials/tutorial14094.html
I’ve found a nice tip for something that always happens….you have to reinstall Windows XP. I’ve had to do this twice in the past 2 years for my Windows box. This is especially good for those of us that dual boot…Nothing frustrates me more of having to do a complete reinstall and losing all of my apps and settings in the process (as I did on my first reinstall). So I set out to find a way to reinstall without overwriting the important stuffs. A buddy of mine that I work with scribbled this info down onto a paper for me…if it is posted somewhere else or from another site, I apologize and please correct me so that I might give credit where credit is due.