Explain why, in general, you should not allow incoming Internet traffic to initiate a session on your desktop computer.

What will be an ideal response?


The reason you generally do not want incoming traffic to initiate a session on your computer is that this is the behavior of many malware threats. Also, a desktop computer is usually not running a service that is accessible from the Internet.

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What will be an ideal response?

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