• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Is my computer even Safe??

W

winslow33

Guest
Hello.

I just got a new computer drop my way. I bought an Ethernet crossover cable and hooked it from that machine to my laptop. I then configured Internet Conection Sharing on both the computers (XP on the laptop, NT 4.0 SP1 and W2K on the new one) so I got internet on it now, for the price of a $12 cable.

Now, that's all fine and dandy, but I'm not quite sure about one thing: My laptop is running a very good antivirus sytem (NOD 32, Malawrebytes antimalware, Norton, AND windows firewall) This being said, do I need any kind of antivirus or firewall on the desktop? Im not sure if the Acer laptop's antivirus setup will block viruses from firing into the other computer? Seems like I can save a fair bit of space if I'm safe without antivirus.
 
No, an ICS connection won't be covered by your laptop's AV & firewall. Basically what ICS is is a "software" ethernet bridge or switch that will route the traffic right through your laptop to the other machine. You'll still need protection on your other rig too.
 
I WAS going to nuke the computer, if only to put Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 on it. I tried installing XP, however, only to find the BIOS doesn't support it. Not worth the effort to firgure out how to flash it.:icon_lol:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top