Another Stunnel post ugg!!

[HeneryH]

If you ONLY port forward to your BI machine and that BI machine is up do date on its security patches you should be OK. One better level of security would be to run a virtual machine with reverse proxy. I can talk you through that if you'd like.

[mr2u53]

Absolutely please if you could walk me thru that it would make me feel a lot better.

[TimG]

Well worth doing something. Have a look in the "Connections" tab of BI settings to see if there are any unknown connections. I found unknown addresses there from foreign countries, so closed all ports. I now run OpenVPN on my router to allow remote access, but that's a whole new level of complication. It did get rid of the foreign connections though

[HeneryH]

Absolutely please if you could walk me thru that it would make me feel a lot better.

I'll fill this in with more details or maybe start a new thread. While waiting for me to get my notes together you'll need to download a few free apps...

• Download VirtualBox which is a free virtual machine app. The host is your computer and the guests are the VMs. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

• Download a Linux system. I happen to use Fedora but many people like to use Ubuntu. Nearly all of the commands I use in the guide will be the same. You could download the full desktop flavor of your Linux VM to get a full desktop environment but since everything is command line I use the server version which uses less resources. https://getfedora.org/ When you download, make sure it is an ISO file.

• Make a test run or two installing the Linux VM in your VirtualBox app. Create a new VM in VirtualBox and during the install you point to the ISO you downloaded. After the install is complete, depending on the flavor you installed you may need to manually remove the installer ISO from the VM by right clicking on the VM removable disk and say eject.

• Since I use command line so much and copy/paste doesn't work well with server instances I install a friendly Xterm app to make life easy for me. https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ This lets me ssh into my VMs and gets me nice copy/paste features.

[mr2u53]

I am on it! Sounds like a real fun Saturday night. The girlfriend will be painting the kitchen and dinning room so I have some time later tonight to attempt this. I also see your other post so I will read it all before I ask any questions. Thank you so much.

[HeneryH]

.... or you could help her paint the kitchen

[HeneryH]

I talk a little about Fedora and Ubuntu. If you have some space on your disk you can try both side by side. Just download each ISO and load up to VMs. Side by side, step by step.

[mr2u53]

.... or you could help her paint the kitchen

Ha Ha She doesn't let me paint. All finish work is hers. She loves to change the color of her house and furniture. I do all the behind the scenes stuff.