Arrred games?
witch:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2008 August 17, 18:03:45
Yes, if you have an ISP that's smart enough to slow traffic on the standard torrent ports. However, you have to be sure your router has Upnp enabled, so it'll know to pass torrent traffic through to the new port.
I just picked a random port for each of my PCs, that seems to work fine. I don't have Upnp enabled. I read somewhere having Upnp enabled was not such a good thing, but I can't remember why. :D
Theo:
A Flash script can easily hijack your router, if you have UPnP enabled.
http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/flash-upnp-attack-faq/
http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205800419
Prescription: Turn off UPnP on your router. Disabling Flash is also a good policy; if you use Firefox, install the FlashBlock extension, or other equivalent.
Judecat:
Quote from: TimeStop on 2008 August 17, 22:09:27
Thank you, and while I'm being paranoid but not doing anything, is the firewall that comes with windows (xp on my desktop) good in your opinion?
From the little I know the Windows firewall will block some incomeing stuff, but it does not block out going stuff -- so it allows things to "phone home".
Ryslin:
Comodo Firewall is nice.. bit complicated and can easily lead to you leaving yourself open if you let it default. With it set to paranoid it can be annoying in a different way because you cannot open a single program without it questioning if that is what you ment to do.
Zone Alarm is a old standby if you are looking for basic protection.
Both of the above are free and easily found by a Google search.
I would strongly recommend NOT getting anything with the name Norton on it.
With windows firewall alone you have put on a light coat to go out in zero degree weather...
jsalemi:
Quote from: Theo on 2008 August 18, 10:27:28
Prescription: Turn off UPnP on your router.
Unfortunately, that's not always an option -- my DirecTV HD DVR connects to the computers to play audio and video files, but it fails to function if UPnP is turned off in the router. (Or more specifically, the video/audio sharing on the PCs fails if UPnP isn't enabled.)
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