Home network ...

1st line of defence
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Wi-Fi b/g 4-port Router (D-Link 614) Connects to cable
Firewall, NAT, etc: etc:

Computers
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3 Lan attached servers (win2000) and
1 Lan attached WinXP PC (yesterday I reload from factory disk)
2 WiFi attached Apples (iBook & PowerBook)
2 old notebooks (for experiments) 1=Win98, 1=WinMe
1 WiFi & Lan attached Sony Vaio thumb computer
1 WiFi attached Sony PDA (plus a few others for experiments: Sony Zaurus, iPaq etc:)

Attached to the 802.11b/g router is a Proxim 802.11a access point (for experiments)

2nd Line of defence
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Have the latest Zone Alarm Security Suite installed on the 4 main computers (as on 30 mins ago). ZA SS now does virus support.

In addition to the above am now rerouting all my email accounts through my own
website that has Spam Assasin installed plus some other filters (Had been getting close on 200 spam mails a day)

I have isolated the WinXP computer such that it can only log on to access the other computers on the internal lan. This machine has MSIE on it whereas the others have Netscape 7.xx installed.

Am hopeful this new config will provide some reasonable security.

Doug M

#2 - have just been analysing the abilities of Spam Assasin to kill spam. Most impressed. I have set my website spam score to a very low 4.1 & it seems to be filtering out the bulk of the garbage I have been getting. Good emails are getting through.