Re: Followup: [cobalt-users] Qube Hacked

[Parker Morse <morse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 04:24  PM, Wim Dieke wrote:
> Linda, Maybe you should look into the adaptive firewall for the Qube3. 
> This will enhance the security on your qube and it is a free addon from 
> sun.

I found the adaptive firewall unnecessarily confusing and difficult to use.
 Gerald installed PMFirewall on our Qube3 after our hack, and (though I 
had to tweak the configuration a bit) I've found it pretty simple and easy 
to deal with. It's essentially an ipchains configuration script. It's at 
<http://www.pointman.org/PMFirewall/>.

I know other Qube users who just picked up a hardware firewall - and in 
all honesty, if you count my time as worth something (debatable) we 
probably spent more recovering from our hack than we would have on a 
hardware firewall.

pjm