Dude eazy I see few applications running like IE running,close that & send me the screeny.We will sort this out.
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eh? Have you ever pondered over "open ports" ? have you ever considered "port scans"?
Have you ever understood what netcat could do to your system?
Dude there is no point in being online without a firewall if you dont understand what goes on the OS level.How do you think DDoS[Distributed Denial of Service of attacks] take place?
Hosts which are unsecured taken control of & are made into remote machines popularly called as "zombie machines" which then combine together to launch a massive DOS on a single host.So you are telling me you dont have a part to play in this?
Everybody has a part to play.Patching the OS,installing & regularly updating a AV,installing a firewall...these are the basic things you gotta to do to secure your machine.Call them the Holy Grail of basic security of you like. And most importantly "common sense" rules.How much security & how little or more it is would depend upon the person sitting infront of the computer.
N btw how will a firewall protect you when dumb users allow trojans with legit names to access the internet.
True but if you have outbound protection enabled on your software firewall then it would ask for permission to access/deny the applications connection to the internet & with a little bit of common sense you could atleast find out which port & host its trying to connect to.It may fail sometimes but atleast its better than nothing.
I visit lots of crack, warez sites with no firewall, you just need a good secure browser like FF n patched os.
You visit warez sites huh? then have you ever heard of "EXE BINDERS" ? The least you know the crack you downloaded last night was packed with a trojan horse which unpacked itself on double clicking the crack & starts waiting for a connection on so n so port number. Now hows you firefox doing now?Is it informing you of a trojan horse trying to connect back & acting as a backdoor? Hell NO ! Why cause its not a got damn FIREWALL !! Its a browser which just parses http requests from servers issuing conent.
But if you have a firewall at the same point of time depending upon how you have set the rules it should ask the user access/deny permission.
P.S: I've nothing against ff nor against any other browser.