RE: Home PC Networking

["David Gillett" <gillettdavid () fhda edu>]

> >  2. I'd like a list of the (incomming/out going) ports that 
> should be 
> > blocked on my firewall. It is a general home PC used for browsing, 
> > gaming, MSN etc.
>
> Incoming: 1-65535, both TCP and UDP
> Outgoing: none
            ^^^^

  Terribly old school.  Workable around 1993, when anyone with an
Internet connection could be reasonably assumed to be a qualified admin,
familiar with every executable on the box and its network behaviour.
Not true since consumers found the web.
  See Bejtlich, Richard, "Extrusion Detection", Addison-Wesley.  
Filtering and monitoring the outbound traffic is a powerful way to 
limit and detect issues you actually need to worry about.

David Gillett