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There will be no risks if you are installing for testing/development purposes when creating your PHP scripts. Unless you configure your router (if you have one) ans/or firewall to allow connections via the port Apache runs on (80 is the default).

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Offline = Only accessable from localhost.

Online = Accessable from any interface.

 

EDIT, to answer your question:

MySQL will not allow remote connections by default. The only thing that it opens up is port 80. Many ISPs will block that for home connections. But yes, if apache gets a security hole found, and you have it Online, then you are at risk like the other servers, while it's running.

 

Personally I don't keep WAMP running all of the time. Just when developing. And I normally leave it Offline.

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