XP Phone Home!

Discussion in 'privacy general' started by Checkout, Mar 15, 2002.

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  1. Checkout

    Checkout Security Rhinoceros

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    This has probably been raised before, but for new XP users, here's a little trauma:

     
    Checkout, Mar 15, 2002
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  2. UNICRON

    UNICRON Technical Expert

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    MS OSs are well documented phoning home. You firewall should be able to block the obvious ones.

    The ones that don't play by the rules require an external firewall/filter. IPchains is a rulesbased firewall that you can configure on an old box running linux to catch EVERYTHING.
     
    UNICRON, Mar 15, 2002
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  3. Detox

    Detox Retired Moderator

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    Ive heard of that... can that stuff be ran on an old 100 mgtz pentium with like 8 megs of RAM? I have one in the garage...
     
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  4. UNICRON

    UNICRON Technical Expert

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    you bet!

    a good distribution for old slow computers is slackware found at www.slackware.org


    it is time for us all to learnhow to use other OSs instead of always MS.
     
    UNICRON, Mar 15, 2002
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