Re: Best free firewall software

Al Dykes wrote:
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There are a bunch of internet port scanner services that can test you
from the outside. They'll tell you if you have any ports open.

Can you recommend a couple? I mentioned grc.com a couple of days ago and got only a long list of diatribes against the site and its author, but no suggestions for alternates. If GRC is unable to tell me I'm secure from port scans, it's sure been able to tell me a couple of times when I wasn't.

If you can dedicate an old PC to the tast there's IPCop and m0m0.

I looked over the IPCop site, and it looks like the only advantage of IPCop over my current router is that it's cheap -- assuming you have an old unused computer and either are familiar with Linux or consider the time to locate and install Linux, learn to use it, and install and learn to use IPCop as being of no value. None of these is true for me, so I'm happy to use a router instead. Or is there some other advantage to IPCop?
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