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Re: [tor-talk] Open source firewall.



On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 7:47 PM, TheMindwareGroup <
themindwaregroup@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Windows firewall is useless.
>
> Someone should write an open source firewall, I found a couple of
> pieces of open source firewall code but they where really poor (one of
> them crashed my computer), and I found an open source program
> PeerBlock to be used to stop anti-copyright company's targeting your
> file sharing, by blocking there IP address's (in both directions).
>
> Its fast, efficient and has hardly any footprint but if it was
> actually a full firewall it would be awesome, I would rather use a
> small efficient open source program like this that I know I can count on.
>
> Such a piece of software would be a great security enhancement to Tor.
> Even just a small program to block all outgoing traffic to stop
> programs from accessing the internet directly (which would also stop
> virus's and Trojans).
>
> When I used it I was amazed to see how many IP address's get accessed
> without my knowledge, and how many other IPs that tried to access my
> computer (all strange port numbers probably virus, trojan programs).
>
> The NSA must have a hell of a job cos they dont even know if any of
> these access's where even you or not.
>
> Does anyone actually trust any of the commercial firewalls?
> And why would anyone pay for a large slow, piece of software that
> probably doesn't do a good job anyway and might have back doors?
>
> ~Shadowman
>
> ~TheMindwareGroup
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why reinvent the wheel? take a look at http://www.pfsense.org/
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