Lobster wrote:

Am also a bit worried that doing so, and permitting the required access
to the PCs, might leave my network vulnerable to attack from the outside
(mentioned by the manufacturer) - do you know if that's an issue? My net
access is via a router, and am running Windoze firewalla.

Your router in it's self provides basic firewalling. Most Routers have
aditional firewall capabilites buit in, so, regardless of your internal
PC's "protection", once your router has been bridged by attacker your
pretty much fkd so as to speak.

Most hackers are only interested in stuff of significant interest so
you'd be safe unless you were a government agent etc.

The rest of the PC attacks are people looking for open PC's for using as
spamming agents or to use for DOS attacks etc etc, so your routrer
should give protection agains most instances.

IMHO of course.

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