Hi, I have firewall script using iptables which runs from /etc/rc.d/rc.local. This script does nothing except allowing just http, smtp for outer world(inbound). All type of connections are allowed from the machine to the outerworld (outbound). I have not set anything else like in hosts.deny/hosts.allow or sshd.conf. My question is, according to your knowledge, is my computer safe enough? Till now I have not suffered from any proble, but this cannot go on for-ever. Regards from VJ