For those that don't know about Microsoft's latest update..

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Originally Posted by RawAlex

As for software firewalls, well, like I said, they are ALL pointless.

Well, maybe. A firewall that sets all ports to emulate stealth mode, like ZA, certainly offers protection from all the script kiddies that are just auto-pinging ports within certain IP ranges looking for an open port. ZA always shows my ports as non-existent, and there's plenty of wide-open unprotected machines for the kids to hack.

Sure, it probably wouldn't stop a knowledgable person who specifically wished to do me harm, but it's effective against virtually all of the idjits that are probing for open ports.