Hardware Firewall?

[Alfred]

Hi Now and then there are ports opened on my Computer,37777 and the
lights on my Hardware modem are flashing like mad! One day while setting
up my Scanner in Xsane there was this extra option for a Virtual
scanner, Google tried to open a port on my Software firewall at about
the same time. Some days the modem lights flash, and something is being
uploaded, to a mirror web site. Yet I did not activate that upload. I
want to be able to stop these intrusions!!! I just Locked the firewall
then turned off the modem! So perhaps you don't get bugged this way but
I do!

Alfred!

On Sat, 2006-16-12 at 13:55 -0500, Tee Jay Rosene wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-14-12 at 22:19 -0500, Alfred wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > Where I live there is no DSL, No High Speed Internet, yet for better
> > security, a Hardware Firewall, is recommended over top of a
> Software 
> > Firewall like Firestarter. Is there some way that a Hardware
> Telephone
> > Modem (56K), could be hooked up to a Hardware firewall, like say one
> of
> > the Trendnet DSL Hardware Firewalls, to give better firewall
> Protection, 
> > while not making use of a DSL Modem, but a 56K Modem instead?
> >
> > Alfred!
> >
> >
>         I think you're being overly cautious considering you're on
>         dialup.
>         
>         Cheers,
>         Rene
> 
> Yes, I also agree that you shouldn't have to go through all that
> trouble, considering you're on dial-up. Ubuntu, and the Linux kernel,
> are way more secure than a Windows machine. Also, the  fact that you
> are on dial-up also limits any malicious attacker from getting onto
> your system. 
> 
> Tee Jay