Subj : Re: Pro-active firewall?
To   : Nick Andre
From : Shurato
Date : Mon Jul 08 2024 09:15:00


* In a message originally to Shurato, Nick Andre said:

 > On 07 Jul 24  12:53:00, Shurato said the following to Nick Andre:

 > S> Oh, I just have the windows Firewall, not pfsense.  It wouldn't be a
 > solutio
 > S> for me; as well I wouldn't know how to add an IP address from the BBS
 > to it.

 > You don't.

 > Snort is an IDS. It automatically detects script kids, DDOS, POD etc and
 > tells Pfsense to block them. An IDS is far superior than any Windows
 > firewall.

 > Its part of a larger conversation about running a commercial-grade
 > firewall at home to stop this and other crap at the source, so you
 > are not trying to  retrofit Internet security into silly hobby
 > software never designed for  such.

Yeah, but I don't have the ability to run pfssense.

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