RE: Computer Query.

Turn off file and print sharing.
Make sure none of your hard discs are configured as a share.

Then turn off the firewall, you don’t need it, unless you have built your self a webserver of course.

There is no way anyone can gain access to you PC if you do the above. Your at bigger risk from email viruses so make sure you have a good anti virus installed. PC’s have no inbound connections i.e. Telnet, FTP, Apache etc.

Sure the firewall might report to you “someone is running a port scan, you were hit by a malicious ping, xyz tried to access your computer etc”. Let em, they won’t get in. The internet is full of this kind of traffic, it’s unimportant.

Your more likely to find someone has accessed you isp mail account because you picked a password like `fred`. Don’t let em in and they can’t get in!