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Originally Posted by BlackHawk
I never had problems before I used xfire. It may not be that, but I prefer to be safe. I use Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0. Not the cheapest, but for sure the best out there. I used Norton, but I don't like the firewall. Used ZoneAlarm, and even tho it was very good, it give me some problems I could not figure.
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Hey mate,
If your ever worried someone is connected to your system, a quick
NETSTAT
from the dos prompt will let you know all ports that are open on your machine with active connections to them. Those above mention software firewalls have their limits ofc, you may want to look into a modem/router with a hardware firewall in it. Other than that some simple things you can do to make sure that your basic firewalling is setup is run the tests from ...
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
Other than that, good luck with the clean install, being violated is always a pain.
Take Care,
Sparkz
PS. Being behind NAT will not save you. As soon as you initiate any peer to peer activity within XFire or other program, ie. Voice chat, File Transfer, messaging, skype voice chat, etc, your IP can easily be sniped
Anyone who has done a basic Microsoft Administration course has the knowledge of how to do this and access your machine if you have not got it secured.