[dba-Tech] Apache Web Server

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.
>
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> Paul Hartland
> paul.hartland at googlemail.com
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Arthur


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