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Hi,

I currently Internet Banking from my Xp PC (nod32,router and firewalled) and was wondering if It could be safer under Irix or turn another PC into an up to date Linux box?

The XP machine is used by all and even though I can tell them what to watch out for I rather not risk it anymore.

Only I use my SGI machines and are connected to the net via a router, but it's a system I know much less about than XP (even though I had one a while :0) ) so I not worried about local exploits only remote access exploits that can install "naughty" software on my machine.

Chances seem pretty slim on my SGI boxes being exploited but I would like any input you guys might have.

Wise or Not?

Cheers

Thanks for the replies, I was pretty much convinced before.

I've install ipfilter and I'm going to lock down all the ports apart from http 80 as I don't need them open apart from sharity (what ever ports it uses)

Thanks

Yep https to, thanks for the heads up.

What start up file would I add the command to load the rule set? can I have them loaded before I get to the visual login so that all the accounts have them?

I've not read all of the ipf man file, but is there any way I could allow only traffic thats been ask for on a port?.

ie firefox uses 80,443 etc but I only want those ports open for apps I allow (not just leave them open as I have now) basicly I'd want them not showing on a port scan, is ipfliter able to do this?

Cheers

Thanks for the replies guys, I've got ipfilter working and he seems to work well.

I've got some port scanning software (like superscan 4) and the machine did not show up so ipfilter seems OK

Cheers