Re: Off subject - firewalls

["mike shupp" m.shupp@xxxxxxxx]

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From: "Paul Breeze" 
To: "XyWrite users group" 
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 6:28 AM
Subject: Off subject - firewalls

> For those who are not sure if they need protection, try www.grc.com
> This is a site that will probe your pc across the internet and see how far
> it can get. Worth a try, though it may increase paranoia levels. This
> site, run by someone called Steve Gibson, also has hints for tightening up
> security.

Oh, are the Mighty fallen!

Steve Gibson is, or was, famous as the creator of Spinrite, which rigorously
inspects hard disks for error and reclaims some disk sectors marked "bad"
during formatting. He's also written a number of articles/columns about
assembly language programming.