funny firewall hits

Post by **Agent-X** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:56 am

Protowall is a good one to. Its basically the same thing as the azureus plug in but runs independent. Pain in the ass to install and get going but theres lots of faqs to help.

http://www.bluetack.co.uk/index.php

Post by **glossy** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 2:33 am

andyman wrote:If I have a router, does that have a built in firewall? Or should I use this in conjunction?

tech expert alert

Post by **andyman** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 2:43 am

glossy wrote:
andyman wrote:If I have a router, does that have a built in firewall? Or should I use this in conjunction?
tech expert alert

notice the question marks

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:31 am

Agent-X wrote:Protowall is a good one to. Its basically the same thing as the azureus plug in but runs independent. Pain in the ass to install and get going but theres lots of faqs to help.

http://www.bluetack.co.uk/index.php

PeerGuardian 2.x is even better now. It only consumes like 1% of cpu and the ip ranges are updated daily. BTW, when you use torrents and what-not, the primary blocking domains from riaa and other companies are for stopping them for sending bad packets, ie., they do this on purpose and commonly on p2p. If you block their automated attempts at sending you bad pieces of the files you want the system will do less re-download attemps of those particular bits and pieces in the end.

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:33 am

andyman wrote:
glossy wrote:
andyman wrote:If I have a router, does that have a built in firewall? Or should I use this in conjunction?
tech expert alert
notice the question marks

If you can connect to the configure page of your router, it will tell you in there what it supports. It probably does have a built-in firewall. In that case, use only that since these are lighter on resources than software firewalls (but might be a bit more difficult to configure right).

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 7:12 am

Grudge wrote:
R00k wrote:You should use this in conjunction with the router.

I have a router, but all this stuff is getting blocked by my firewall, so it's getting past the router.

Routers aren't nearly as good at stopping intrusions as a firewall - unless you have a nice expensive one by Cisco or the like. They mainly just sort-of hide your PC, but most don't do any active blocking or packet filtering.
On the other hand, how many |33t H4XX0rZ are interested in what you have on your computer?

no one. move along.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 7:15 am

pookie owned this thread. nice post, man.