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To: thecow who wrote (15980)	2/8/2001 9:47:24 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110626

hi tc glad to hear that you used tiny personal firewall too. and i'm surprised that it does not have an automatic rule creation setting. norton personal firewall does, but i just reset it to prompt me each time so i could create all new rules. so you and i come at that exercise a bit differently <g>. here's what caught my eye in the smartcomputing piece about tpf.... "Gibson Research’s Shields UP! (http://www.grc.com) didn’t find any open ports during its scan either. Shields UP! uncovered the username, computer name, and workgroup name used for file and print sharing in Windows. According to Shields UP!, however, it’s unlikely that the information could be used to compromise the system." this tells me that tiny does not stealth your machine. it merely closes the ports... so hackers know somebody is home, and will keep trying the door knob. i think i might put tpf on my other machine along with npf, just to see how they coexist. :) mark