Re: [WinMac] Ping doesn't work to ID computers on LAN.


Subject: Re: [WinMac] Ping doesn't work to ID computers on LAN.
From: Bruce Johnson (johnson[at]pharmacy.arizona.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 17 2002 - 16:15:29 EDT


Brian Durant wrote:

> True, but I was hoping to avoid spreading viruses, Trojan Horses, worms, etc.
> from one computer to the other with the firewall. We have already had a case
> of a Trojan Horse on one of the Win 98 boxes and as it is hard to monitor
> what wives and kids download, I thought that this would be added protection

Antivirus software will prevent this with far more ease than not letting
the systems talk to each other...

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

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