Do You Run A Firewall?, Official OCC Poll #17 |
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Do You Run A Firewall?, Official OCC Poll #17 |
 Jan 24 2005, 04:27 AM
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 Mac User  Posts: 8,697 Joined: 4-April 02 From: Knoxville, TN Member No.: 717  |
Broadband is almost a way of life for most people, and the number of people "always connected" continues to grow each year. With this permanent state of connection to the Matrix, some form of cyber protection is almost required... or is it?
This week, we want to know if our members use any kind of firewall, and whether it is a hardware or software firewall. If it's a software firewall, feel free to let us know what brand you have. -------------------- |
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Jan 24 2005, 04:31 AM
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 Forum Realist/Asshole. Posts: 1,415 Joined: 22-October 04 Member No.: 13,098 |
I dont use any, well sorta. My own personall firewalls sorta, something not allowed it just gets port flooded back, Ya i know its most likely illegal, but hey,
if your snooping in my pc you deserve it. -------------------- [center]O' RLY?[/center]
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Jan 24 2005, 04:33 AM
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 (away)  Posts: 6,016 Joined: 6-February 04 From: Narrrrwich, UK Member No.: 8,314 |
i use just plain old windows firewall on my machine, and i use zone alarm pro on the server i connect to the net through
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Jan 24 2005, 05:45 AM
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 im in ur fieldz, hooverin ur swardz Posts: 1,967 Joined: 2-May 04 From: So. Kent CT USA Member No.: 9,889 |
Panda Platinum.
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Jan 24 2005, 06:03 AM
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 Highly Medicated Moderator Posts: 4,933 Joined: 12-February 03 From: Johns Creek, GA Member No.: 3,198 |
Router/Hardware
and Outpost Pro software -------------------- I'm Back! e8400 (still working on overclock, currently 4.0ghz (W00t)and hasn't broken a sweat) | DFI Blood Iron Board | GeIL 2GB DDR2 800 | eVGA 8800 GT | OCZ GameXStream 700W PSU | Dtek Fuzion Water Block | Laing D5 pump |Homemade rad and res
and plenty of storage! w00t Oh yeah..and I switched to Firefox too... ya happy? ;) |
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Jan 24 2005, 06:03 AM
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 Will Fold 4 Food Posts: 5,869 Joined: 10-May 04 From: Franklin, TN Member No.: 10,039 |
I had to disable Norton Internet Security 2003 because it interferes with the downloading of work units from Stanford (folding). There is a known issue with NIS 2003 which apparently has been fixed in NIS 2005. Right now I am just using my Linksys router's firewall.
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QUOTE (hardnrg @ Jul 4 2005, 02:49 PM) however, i cannot claim to be such a fish as i am not a fish at all...   |
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Jan 24 2005, 06:07 AM
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 I have the important Papers. Posts: 636 Joined: 23-April 03 From: Knoxville TN Member No.: 3,905 |
I kinda have a hardware firewall. My computer sits behind the colleges firewall that covers the whole network. But I use sygate personal firewall for added protection.
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Then it came back. So I deleted it again. |
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Jan 24 2005, 06:09 AM
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 o/cing since p166mmx Posts: 896 Joined: 13-April 04 From: monterey,ca Member No.: 9,563 |
i use the windows firewall, i used to use nis 04 but it was blocking me from doing what i wanted.
-drew -------------------- |
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Jan 24 2005, 06:24 AM
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 MacBook Pro abuser Posts: 5,298 Joined: 6-August 04 From: Brooklyn, NY Member No.: 11,525 |
Im using my old BlackIce even though my key expired (simple way around it involves time) windows firewall and then my dsl/router.
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Imac 20" 2.4ghz 2gb ram Radeon HD2600 fx57 @3.0ghz, x1950xtx 700/800, dfi lanparty sli-dr, g.skill F1-4000USU2-2GBHZ, pc power & cooling turbo cool 510. conroe e6600 8800gts 620/1516/1010, asus p5wdh-deluxe, 4x 1gb ADATA, pc power and cooling 750w psu. opteron 146, x800xtpe, msi k8n neo2 platinum, g.skill ddr fx 2x 512mb, corsair xms xlpt 2x512mb, antec truepower 550w esp12v. (board died) e8400 @ 4.1ghz, 9800gtx sli @ 772/2001/1105 (, evga 680i, mushkin 2gigs @ ddr1080., pc power and cooling 750w. asus p5k board, e6600 @ 3.5ghz, 8800gt 700/1704/1014, 2gb g.skill HZ @ ddr1032, ocz 600w psu. |
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Jan 24 2005, 07:04 AM
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 BSD Fiend Posts: 5,955 Joined: 18-July 04 From: Gt Yarmouth, UK Member No.: 11,183 |
Trusty FreeBSD + IPFW. Moving to DragonFly + PF ... sometime in the future.
I'm not entirely clear on the hardware vs software firewall thing. Is there any reason why, if my box was dedicated to just firewalling, I couldn't call that a hardware firewall? That is, after all, just what those little expensive boxes do, isn't it? I supposed it's labelled a hardware firewall purely because it's custom hardware with a specialized O/S? -------------------- ( Intel C2Q9300 + Scythe Zipang (400 x 7.5 = 3GHz @ 1.3v) ) ( Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R v2.1 ) ( 2 x 2GB OCZ OCZ2N800SR4GK PC2-6400 (400 x 5-5-5-15 @ 2.1v) ) ( Sapphire 4890 OC 1GB ) ( 4 x 1TB Samsung F1, 1 x 500GB Samsung T ) ( Pioneer DVR-109XL ) ( X-fi XtremeMusic ) ( Corsair HX 520 ) ( Enermax Pandora CA-3030 ) ( 2 x Benq G2400W ) ( Cherry CyMotion Expert ) ( Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 )
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Jan 24 2005, 08:21 AM
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 Hey kid, I'm a computer, Stop all the downloading! Posts: 2,415 Joined: 15-March 03 From: Edmonton, AB Member No.: 3,571 |
I built a little Pentium 233 box with Linux on it which acts as my "hardware firewall" for all my computers which then runs out to a switch to connect everything together. On my main machine I just use the Windows Firewall as the software end of it. My server sits on its own secure subnet called secure server network(SSN). If my server is compromised, the attacker cannot get to my local area network, but yet my local network computers can have easy access to the server.
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Jan 24 2005, 08:42 AM
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 OCC's Unofficial Lian-Li Expert! :D Posts: 1,620 Joined: 21-September 04 From: Texas Member No.: 12,404 |
i use my Linksys router, and XP Pro's software firewall
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