[QUOTE="JigglyWiggly_"] I don't think Windows firewall stops any viruses or anything. All it does is block ports and services from being accessed. And it doesn't inspect packets either, you are going to need Snort to do that. i got snort running on my home router(pfsense, freebsd based), and it is so awesome. It lets me stop myself from causing attacks onmyself, that is awesome.

You said it yourself, the key words are inbound connections, a worm virus will be an unsocilited inbound connection which any untampered windows firewall will block without blinking.

[QUOTE="Chickenesta"]As a systems administrator and holder of a valid CCNA qualification I can say with some authority the Windows firewall is great when used along side a router which also has its own firewall, you really shouldn't need another third party firewall app which are often overly intrusive and cause more problems than they're worth, at the end of the day a firewalls a firewall and I've never seen Windows own firewall fail either at home or where I've worked. NB Even if you have a firewall on your router using a software firewall is still a good idea on multi machine networks to stop the spread of viruses, your router generally won't stop cross domain virus/worm traffic, Windows firewall will ;)JigglyWiggly_

You said it yourself, the key words are inbound connections, a worm virus will be an unsocilited inbound connection which any untampered windows firewall will block without blinking.

This is a bit of adepressing and grumpyrant but I've been really gutted over the past few years over the quality of games in general, I'm 25 now and probably started playing PC games back when I was 12 and we got our first PC I was playing Civnet on my 120mhz Packard Bell PC and it was awesome! then as time went by there was Sim City, Diablo, Doom, Dark Forces,Dark Forces Jedi Knight,Baldurs Gate, Fallout, Operation Flashpoint to name a few,it felt like all these games were so unique and offered something very new and exciting every sequel pushed the boundries but then at some point things started to get worse and I dont know if it was the quality of games if the ethos of developing games turned from quality to finance I dont know...

Sonow it feels likeevery game I play leaves me feeling disillusioned and disappointed at some point yes it might have pushed the boundries but it seemed tocause damage tosomething else in the game as if it was one or the other, great new graphics at the cost of badly considered controls for example.

Perhaps my most recent experiance of this was Dragon Age, so many great aspects to it but I eventually ran out of steam, I'd seen the"Go to fourlocations and win these levels before getting onto the last bit" in Knights of the Old Republic, so yeah we saw a big overhaul and lots of effort on the story and 3d graphicsbut ultimately it didnt really seem to offer much new, the skills were limited for none mages, dexterity was broken etc etc but I dont want to drag on about DA its not the only game I've found this in!

I just don't seem to get excited by games anymore, I've been let down too much and I'm not sure why, is it my age am I growing out of games or is the quality really slipping? I'd be interested to hear what other people have to say about their own experiance of games over the past decade?

I had a few driver issues with my soundcard (creative being lazy) and my wireless USB drive, both were resolved with a little digging around and other than that it's been great, definately on par with XP and it's better in so many other ways.

I think we should make a online petition boycotting them and stop buying Activision PS3 games! :D

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