alternative to firestarter?

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debian wrote:
> hey all,
>
> im looking for a good alternative to fire starter. After my system got
> attacked a couple days ago (The guy was doing an oldschool attack using
> vnc to "attempt" to install his windows virus onto my machine...and yes
> i found reports of this on google), i decided to put a fire wall on my
> system and the only firewall that i know of is firestarter, however
> firestarter gives me a lot of core dumps and crashes very often
>
> im just looking for a more stable firewall...suggestions are welcome
>
> --cj
>
>
>   
I made firestarter more stable by using some code I got off the forums
somewhere...

Obviously I am using kubuntu hence the kdesu

command G_SLICE=always-malloc kdesu /usr/sbin/firestarter

Regards

Gerard