tlarkin

well a firewall is as secure as the person that implements the firewall. If you have some uneducated bozo opening up all ports on your firewall and allowing all traffic in and out, then yeah, that could cause a problem or two.

PC eye

That's true! One thing I liked about the freeware known as Spyware Terminator was the mild form of prompting for anything new without hampering activities a typical firewall will see. It's caught a few things already when the old case was in use. But basically that does much the same with the allow or deny option seen in prompts.

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tlarkin

PC eye

since you like to tinker you may want to check smooth wall, its a good way to turn a cheap PC into a Linux driver firewall

http://www.smoothwall.org/

PC eye

The problem with that it is directed at Linux and networking and not intended for Windows. The information was good on it however. At some time when additional and even larger drives are added here a few distros could benefit then.

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wiwazevedo

lol well u guys lost me
thanks for the feedback
i got it working
i didnt use the gparted cd after all
i just booted off a fc7 cd and used the partition manager that came with it

PC eye

Very good! I wish Core 4 had that a few years ago. The newer releases are better equipped now.

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Ahead of theCurve: Extreme gamers play 45hrs. a week
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