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Clinton County, Michigan | Dave made some good explanations. Some other points are that dial-up is not as open to attacks as an always on connection, because your IP is different each logon. Also if your ISP features firewall, with that and the XP firewall enabled I would say you are protected as good or better as some.
Other things to watch out for with broadband always on connections is being directly connected. Adding a router acts as a hardware firewall that filters incoming trafic. Simply described that if your computer didnt request it then the router doesnt know where to send it and it goes no where. | |
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Windows XP firewall ?
