Sorry in advance for the long post I re-edited it several times to make it as short as possible..
AOL has sent me a broadband pack to upgrade from my dial up account but I'm concerned about security issues. I have repeatedly read that the best way to secure yourself over the internet with a broadband account is to put a computer between the outside world of traffic and your main PC.
So this is what I've done so far: I got a copy of Firewalls For Dummies and that was useful for explaining the terminology but it wasn't much good for what I'm trying to achieve as it only looked at firewalls being used on a main computer. I have also heeded the warnings about never running a Win2000/XP machine online under Administrator too..
After having a look at the posts on here I realised that I will have to configure ICS on the PC that I want to surf the net with so it can access the broadband account that will be placed on the firewall server. I also did a search on google and yahoo and found this site which was very informative and spelled out exactly what I'm aiming for.. *see example 2*
http://www.jpevolution.co.uk/hottopics.htm
This is my networked ethernet setup...
Computer A is a Pentium II 233mhz with 195 mb running Win200pro
Computer B is a Pentium II 350mhz with 320 mb running Win98SE
Computer C is a Pentium IV 3.06ghz with 512 mb running Win98SE
Comp. A is the machine that I want to use as the dedicated firewall by placing the AOL broadband program on it and the security software. Then through Internet Connection Sharing, Comp. B would access the broadband account.
Comp. B is a dedicated browsing and downloading workstation and has spybot, spywareblaster zonealarm & AVG installed. File sharing of it's drives by the other PC's is enabled.
Comp. C is not connected to the net and is used for digital editing.
Can anyone advise me or give me guidance/suggestions on how to configure my network so that if Comp A is attacked and breached the chances of the hacker getting access to my other two PC's is reduced or minimised?
Cheers and sorry again for the long post, I hope it has all made sense!
Jay Jay
AOL has sent me a broadband pack to upgrade from my dial up account but I'm concerned about security issues. I have repeatedly read that the best way to secure yourself over the internet with a broadband account is to put a computer between the outside world of traffic and your main PC.
So this is what I've done so far: I got a copy of Firewalls For Dummies and that was useful for explaining the terminology but it wasn't much good for what I'm trying to achieve as it only looked at firewalls being used on a main computer. I have also heeded the warnings about never running a Win2000/XP machine online under Administrator too..
After having a look at the posts on here I realised that I will have to configure ICS on the PC that I want to surf the net with so it can access the broadband account that will be placed on the firewall server. I also did a search on google and yahoo and found this site which was very informative and spelled out exactly what I'm aiming for.. *see example 2*
http://www.jpevolution.co.uk/hottopics.htm
This is my networked ethernet setup...
Computer A is a Pentium II 233mhz with 195 mb running Win200pro
Computer B is a Pentium II 350mhz with 320 mb running Win98SE
Computer C is a Pentium IV 3.06ghz with 512 mb running Win98SE
Comp. A is the machine that I want to use as the dedicated firewall by placing the AOL broadband program on it and the security software. Then through Internet Connection Sharing, Comp. B would access the broadband account.
Comp. B is a dedicated browsing and downloading workstation and has spybot, spywareblaster zonealarm & AVG installed. File sharing of it's drives by the other PC's is enabled.
Comp. C is not connected to the net and is used for digital editing.
Can anyone advise me or give me guidance/suggestions on how to configure my network so that if Comp A is attacked and breached the chances of the hacker getting access to my other two PC's is reduced or minimised?
Cheers and sorry again for the long post, I hope it has all made sense!
Jay Jay