In article ,
Jeff Layman wrote:

For anyone that has a hardware firewall in their router, a software
firewall on the PC and a virus checker that is updated on a weekly
basis then there will be no risks with using garden banter.

? What's the difference if you are connected to the internet via a
mailserver, newsserver, or via a browser? If you allow http of any sort to
get through, you are wide open to malicious scripts. ...

That's not true. But describing why it's false is beyond the scope
of this group.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.