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| Thanks for the info Chas . Also what does DMZ mean please :p.I followed the Sheilds Up Link and it found that basically my pc did not exist and did not give away one packet of information. And passed all the Stealth tests. So does this mean I can relax abit now?  .
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| Yup, looks like ur stealthed, which is good if you're not running any services.
Now you just have to worry about virii, trojans, email borne junk, port-knocking and a million other things that the firewall won't stop.
One thing worth noting: Hardware Firewalls stop / question all inbound connections, software firewalls tend to stop / question connections in both directions.
The DMZ (De-Militarized Zone) is an area outside your Firewall (or with most / all ports open) that is still on your LAN.
The old XBox worked best in the DMZ, because putting it behind the firewall caused the scket conflicts that meant that random players could not hear one another.
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| | The only programs I'm running now are. AVG free, Spybot S&D, Adaware, and Windows Vista Firewall. All recommondations from you guys. I'm alot more happy with how my pc is performing on Vista Using these apps. The Security I was using before stopped me doing so much. And was extremely hard to configure. So thanks everyone for you're recommendations and information. Much appreciated .
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