Firewalls

amp

I presumed that because I don't have a fixed ip address on the net it'd be silly to get a personal firewall. But then I fire up ZoneAlarm out of curiousity and there's already some muppet probing me, and not in a nice way. And then there's all that spyware out there that tries to sneak personal info back to hq without telling you.

So the moral of the post is "Be safe, Be paranoid, they ARE out to get you!"

amp: mmmmm lithium in chewable tablets

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SantaHoe

Yeah, it's only when you install a firewall, that you realise just how many strange connections are being attempted.

CH

Some1 was probing you! je$us!

When you were growing up, didnt anyone tell you to shout "NOOO!"

Panda

There is absolutely no need for probing whatsoever.

My qs are do firewalls slow down your connection?
Is it ok to leave them running when ur goin playing online games?(CS)
Whats a good firewall?(minus any probing plz)

ButcherOfNog

yup, loads of nasty little tuncs out there scanning like the bejasus. if you leave yer pc online and unattended, even if you don't have a perm ip, you need a firewall.

theres a free wee one from zonelabs which afaik is free. main thing is to ensure you don't get/have a trojan on your pc, uptodate virus scanner should sort that out.