a good firewall

Hay /comp/,

What's your favorite firewall program?
I have zonealarm and IMO it is not so great.
After tweaking it to allow minimal traffic to/from my computer, it ran fine for months until all of a sudden it started giving me Generic Host Process Blocked messages from various DNS caches from my ISP. 

I use Sygate Personal Firewall Pro for my windows os. Quite a nice firewall for windows.It's low on resources and high on power, but can be difficutl for someone who doesn't know much about firewalls at all.
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Your not so right about Software firewalls, but your system practices are good enough. But depending on your IP and your system's location, there is a chance that you are a small target anyway. If your on a College Dorm network, like I am,your almost constantly attacked and scanned. Hardware firewalls can only do so much. IPchains are powerfull, but a pain to set up. I use 2k though. XP is too flawed prone for my tates and it has UPnP and built in blue tooth support. Not thankyou.
You have to be proactive aobut your security and unless you properly set up and use a firewall, wheather it be a soft or hard, it is worthless. One good way to secure your system is not allowing the Kernel net acess. If your not on a network where you log in, it has no reason to be there. Also go into the services and dissable things like "remote access" and change your DCOM to TCP/IP only. Also most Modern Network cards can be set up to block certain types of communication on a hardware level. There are alot of tools avalble to secure your system. You just have to use them