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To: Chris Nevil who wrote (3091)	11/6/1998 11:47:00 PM
From: Phil McCrevice	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

It is true that one can network through the ATHM connection. If you disable "file and print sharing" through the "Network" connectoid in Control Panel, then no one can hack back into your system. As an additional precaution, I change my Host Name from the one @Home provides to something else (anything else). Pinging IP addresses on the @Home system yields the host names as assigned by @Home. Changing your host name doesn't affect @Home working but does mess up the ability of an outsider to connect to you via the @Home assigned host name. Probably not fool proof... but does make it more difficult for someone to hack you. FYI, I have an NT 4.0 server hooked up to my cable modem and use it to provide unlimited "simulatenous" access to my @Home account from any number of PC's on my home network. The added bonus is that I can log to my NT server from ANYWHERE on the Internet since it has a static IP address assigned by @Home. I can even host my own web pages without being subject to the 5MB limit @Home specifies. The point is that if I can use the @Home connection to run a network, anyone else can access it if there aren't adequate security precautions. In my case, I use a gateway (via SyGate) to seperate my workstation from the Internet. My workstations are invisible to the Internet. Phil.