OT: ADSL safe practices and setting up a home network

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 09:00:55 -0400,
  Debbie Deutsch <fedoralist at ddeutsch.org> wrote:
> 
> Remember that the major difference between dial-up and broadband is that
> your computer is always connected; therefore the big difference in what
> you have to protect against is probes from the bad guys who are looking
> for computers that they can break into.  Whatever you were doing about
> spam and viruses and nasty websites can remain the same.

While machines with only dial up access are probably of less interest
to botnet owners, they are still vulnerable to attacks used to build
botnets. The attack rate is high enough, that typical dial up use does
not protect you well enough from attacks to treat that type of connection
differently than from an always on connection as far as network security
goes.