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"Good free firewall.."

Can't be bothered to buy Norton or anything like that.

Does anybody have a good free firewall that they could recommend me?

Easy question, gonna get complicated answers now!

Thanks.

it = the firewall

I had Norton before.

I'm not too fussed about incoming stuff, it's the outgoing stuff I don't like.

realplayer was trying to connect to the net every 30 seconds and it stopped loads of other programs from doing it.

Yes but protecting government machines and stuff is sane! Protecting your lonely computer which no-one cares about against vunerabilities which don't exist at the cost of a great annoyance isn't!

Turbonutter wrote:
> No you're not screwed because nobody cares! Hundreds of thousands of
> broadband users exist every day without the use of intensly annoying
> firewalls and nothing bad ever happens! Any vunerabilities your system
> may ever convievably have (and that's very few) are going to get past
> your personal firewalls anyway! Argh!


If you have a netbios vulnerability and your firewall is blocking access the netbios port, how can you possibly claim that doesn't make your system more secure? Even if your firewall is vulnerable as well, that's still two layers to crack instead of just one. Your firewall will also stop your computer cheerily responding to every ICMP echo request.

And to say that hundreds of thousands of broadband users exist without firewalls or getting hacked is ludicrous - how do you think script kiddies are able to take down major hosting companies with DoS'?? Could it be by hijacking lots of unprotected broadband-equipped machines?!?!?! Shurely shome mishtake!

No you're not screwed because nobody cares! Hundreds of thousands of broadband users exist every day without the use of intensly annoying firewalls and nothing bad ever happens! Any vunerabilities your system may ever convievably have (and that's very few) are going to get past your personal firewalls anyway! Argh!

Turbonutter wrote:
> But hackers couldn't care less about your personal computer on a 3 PC
> LAN!


If you're on a LAN you're likely behind somekind of NAT firewall anyway. If you're bolted straight to the internet on a broadband connection without a firewall, you're screwed. At the very least, Zonealarm et al will stop your NetBIOS ports responding with "Yes I exist, please hack the %&#! out of me!"

Um.

we wanted to go into one of those hacker war games.....

Miserableman wrote:
> Most hacking is done by bulk - script kiddies have a script scan a
> range of ip addresses. The script then flags the most
> interesting/vulnerable looking computers for the kiddie to look at
> later. Home security largely involves making your computer look as
> uninteresting and difficult as possible to a casual scan, which is
> what a personal firewall does.


But hackers couldn't care less about your personal computer on a 3 PC LAN!

Quazimodo wrote:
> Me and my mate r learning to hack (legally of course) what languages
> do you need to know?

Hahhahahahahahahahahahaha.