Firewalls

[whocudathowtit]

Hi !,

Go here :-- http://grc.com/dos/drdos.htm Read through that article. Afterwards consider " Do you want your machine taken over in this fashion, so some hacker can attack other net users". I don't, so I use a firewall to help avoid that situation. The pro's and con's of which firewall to use is another vast subject.
Do yourselves and everyone else a favour get a firewall.

[The_Muffin_Man]

Yeah, I read that a long time ago. I also read the one where his server was shut down by a 13-year-old script kiddie. The only thing that killed his connection was the fact that he couldn't contact his ISP fast enough to filter out the false packets. Of course, the government wouldn't help him either.

That is why you need a software firewall. You need to prevent against trojans like the ones implemented to attack Steve Gibson.