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Do You Run A Firewall? Official OCC Poll #17 Rate Topic:

Poll: Do You Run A Firewall? (75 member(s) have cast votes)

Do You Run A Firewall?

Yes a hardware firewall. (21 votes [28.00%])
Percentage of vote: 28.00%
Yes a software firewall. (17 votes [22.67%])
Percentage of vote: 22.67%
Yes a hardware & software firewall. (27 votes [36.00%])
Percentage of vote: 36.00%
No, I do not have a firewall. (8 votes [10.67%])
Percentage of vote: 10.67%
Umm, what's a firewall?? (1 votes [1.33%])
Percentage of vote: 1.33%
Other. (1 votes [1.33%])
Percentage of vote: 1.33%

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#1 d3bruts1d

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Posted 24 January 2005 - 04:27 AM

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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#2 Silenc3

Forum Realist/Asshole.

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Posted 24 January 2005 - 04:31 AM

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.

#3 suchuwato

suchapotato was formerly known as lego

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Posted 24 January 2005 - 04:33 AM

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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#4 Phil

im in ur fieldz, hooverin ur swardz

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Posted 24 January 2005 - 05:45 AM

Panda Platinum.

The real cow king.

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#5 exeter_acres

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Posted 24 January 2005 - 06:03 AM

Router/Hardware

and Outpost Pro software

#6 Nemo

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Posted 24 January 2005 - 06:03 AM

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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#7 savethedodobird

I have the important Papers.

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Posted 24 January 2005 - 06:07 AM

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.

My sig went AWOL

Then it came back.

So I deleted it again.

#8 drewkivela

o/cing since p166mmx

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Posted 24 January 2005 - 06:09 AM

i use the windows firewall, i used to use nis 04 but it was blocking me from doing what i wanted.
-drew

#9 swifty11212

MacBook Pro abuser

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Posted 24 January 2005 - 06:24 AM

Im using my old BlackIce even though my key expired (simple way around it involves time) windows firewall and then my dsl/router.

MacBook Pro 2.4ghz 4gb Corsair 4-4-4-12 modules.

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.

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#10 markiemrboo

BSD Fiend

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Posted 24 January 2005 - 07:04 AM

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?

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#11 LobbDogg

Hey kid, I'm a computer, Stop all the downloading!

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Posted 24 January 2005 - 08:21 AM

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.