Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Mon Feb 17 08:25:03 CST 2014
You might try ZoneAlarm's free firewall software, which can be downloaded from: http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us/zonealarm-pc-security-free-firewall.htm Arthur On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Paul Hartland <paul.hartland at googlemail.com > wrote: > To all, > > Last year (being a total novice with web stuff) I put the Apache web server > on my PC and basically put a very simple page saying 'Hello World' and > asked a friend to see if they could see the page, to my amazement yes they > could, then to my disappointment another friend said people would find it > easy to hack into my machine and I would need a firewall (think he said > hardware one) in between my broadband box and my PC. Is this correct and > if so does anyone have any suggestions as I have lost contact with that > friend after he moved to Australia. > > Thanks in advance for any help on this. > > -- > Paul Hartland > paul.hartland at googlemail.com > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Arthur