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To: Road Walker who wrote (98312)	2/5/2000 7:50:00 PM
From: ericneu	Respond to of 186894

I have a cable modem. May I ask, what do I need to be protected from? I will gladly fork over the 39.95, just need to know why. --- People with bad intentions. It could range anywhere from malicious damage, to copying your personal files, to "hijacking" your computer to attack another. My systems receive anywhere from one to two dozen probes a week looking for vulnerabilities. I sleep better knowing they're unlikely to find any. - Eric

To: Road Walker who wrote (98312)	2/5/2000 10:02:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 186894

I have a cable modem. May I ask, what do I need to be protected from? I will gladly fork over the 39.95, just need to know why. If you have file sharing set up and it's bound to your cable modem, then you may be opening your machine up to anyone on your local cable segment. Try going into your Network Neighborhood folder and clicking on Entire Network. The way I understand it (but I'm not an expert) is that unless you or your cable provider has taken certain actions (unknown to me exactly what they are) everyone on your cable segment with printer and/or file sharing enabled will show up. I don't have a cable modem and this is just something I read in a computer column so I can't verify it.