Re: The Coalition against Personal Firewalls

Notan wrote:
Rod Engelsman wrote:
Hey guys, do you really want people to take you seriously?

It would help if you didn't automatically belittle, berate, insult, and
otherwise demean everyone who posts here with questions concerning PFWs.
Maybe this is a cultural thing, but it comes across as incredibly obnoxious.
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Well said.

Ditto.

I posted what I thought was a helpful comment and got only a bunch of snide and critical comments from "Sebastian Gottschalk" and "Ansgar-59cobolt-Wiechers". Instead of being constructive or helpful, they only sneered at "Joe Average" (me) and his (my) ignorance. I've watched the newsgroup for a few days now and that seems to be the only kind of comment "Gottschalk" makes to anyone.

Although I use a router at home, a software firewall on my laptop is currently my only protection against port scans and similar intrusions when I travel. These are coming in at my home at a rate of about one every five seconds, yet the PFW effectively blocks them. I know that these very modest measures wouldn't be effective against an attack personally directed toward me, but they're sure way better than nothing and have been completely effective -- so far -- at blocking the general background of intrusion attempts.

I'd like to know how to best use what I've got and what other means are available for the average user like me. I keep my system backed up and don't have state secrets on my machine, so I'm not trying to build Fort Knox. But I'd like to get some constructive and useful tips I could put to work to improve what I've got. Those don't seem to be forthcoming here from the folks who style themselves as experts.

Is there a newsgroup or other forum where a non-expert can get useful information or just lurk and learn? This apparently isn't it.
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