Are newbies running a firewall?

[Chris Maaskant]

Kaj Haulrich schreef:
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> As I understand it :  Firestarter is only a front-end to iptables, 
> an easy way to modify it.  When iptables are modified by 
> Firestarter one can quit Firestarter and it's not necessary to have 
> Firestarter running until you make another modification.
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I was thinking the same, but it is not the case, as soon as i stop the 
firestarter deamon i'm exposed to the net.
No ports are open, but they are visible.

So again, how insecure is this?

Chris Maaskant.