Firewalls...

[the nature boy]

While I agree with you on that, I would say that there are a tremendous amount of Hackers that are not looking to get stuff OFF your CPU, they are looking to put something ON your CPU.

Most large virus's that are spread get that way by being placed on numerous cumputers all over the place, anywhere a hacker can get into. That way as they track down the source it never gets back to them.

The last thing I need, is cops coming to my pad to check it out. Going through my computer and tracing my history. I use evidence eliminator to wipe that out, but you can never bee too safe.

agreed that's why I'd say to get a virus protection package, then maybe a firewall. firewalls are over kill, there are some simple things you can do to harden you system. sure its not totally hack proof, but a good hacker can get through most any "home" firewall package anyway.

 

[naturally anabolic]

really? wanna test my home firewall? i'd love to see a hacker attack my "home" cisco pixfirewall 4100?

 

[XBiker]

Get a linksys router. You can put multiple PC's on your broadband connect and it's a hardware firewall.

www.linksys.com

 

[the nature boy]

really? wanna test my home firewall? i'd love to see a hacker attack my "home" cisco pixfirewall 4100?

lol, I didn't say that I was a good hacker. firewall appliances are much better than software firewalls, but if you really want to see how good you firewall is you can always go to some hacker chatboards and challenge them to see if they can hack your firewall. I wouldn't do it.

 

[naturally anabolic]

as a former one i know security pretty well but yeah nothing is foolproof in this world

 

[gymtime]

Good info gentlemen. Thanks to the lot of ya!!!

 

[Code]

Depends on funds, for 350 I would get emBSD from www.embsd.org

For free, well you get what you pay for and ZA has a nice computer-illiterate following. Which has it's ups and downs:
easy to use. Poor rating from SANS. Good documentation. Boys at DefCON trash it daily. blah blah blah.