Chicken and Egg

[William T Goodall]

On 14 Jul 2008, at 22:58, Lance A. Brown wrote:

> William T Goodall said the following on 7/14/2008 2:53 PM:
>
>> So how do you download the patches if you can't put an unpatched
>> Windows computer on the internet?
>
> You don't hook it directly to the Internet.  If you are on a broadband
> connection, get a router or wireless access point with an integrated
> switch and connect your cable or dsl modem to the router or access
> point, then plug your new windows computer into that.  This lets the
> router take all the scans and intrusion attempts and as long as you  
> are
> careful where you browse to, you can download the security updates
> without compromising your machine.

The router of course is running an embedded version of Linux :-)

Without patches Maru

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