Considering the way things are going these days, I don't want applications to talk about me. I.E. I don't want quicktime or windows media player to tell anyone what cd or mp3 i play and when. I own almost 200 cds and only about 25 have been digitized so far, but I don't want our new society of RIAA litigators to knock on my door asking to see my cd collection and scan my hard drive.
I've installed ethereal and watched other funny things going on, like TCP Syn flags (w/o ACKs) set on datagrams going outbound when I launch non-internet dependent applications. There destinations are not clear, even when looking them up on arin.net. Probably some data mining outfit.
I have a hardware based firewall, viruscan, and spybot. But maybe that isn't enough.
I want an application that makes me permit an application to talk to the internet. In the past I've noticed that these did that; mcafee firewall, norton int security and zone alarm (which used to be free). I don't want to spend money on some one year license crap from mcafee and norton.
Is there a GPL, freeware product out there that does the same thing reliably and without bloatware (ala norton). I've heard that XP SP2 has this feature, but I can't find it documented, and I'd prefer not to depend on MS for security.
Running XP Pro SP1.
Thanks.
I've installed ethereal and watched other funny things going on, like TCP Syn flags (w/o ACKs) set on datagrams going outbound when I launch non-internet dependent applications. There destinations are not clear, even when looking them up on arin.net. Probably some data mining outfit.
I have a hardware based firewall, viruscan, and spybot. But maybe that isn't enough.
I want an application that makes me permit an application to talk to the internet. In the past I've noticed that these did that; mcafee firewall, norton int security and zone alarm (which used to be free). I don't want to spend money on some one year license crap from mcafee and norton.
Is there a GPL, freeware product out there that does the same thing reliably and without bloatware (ala norton). I've heard that XP SP2 has this feature, but I can't find it documented, and I'd prefer not to depend on MS for security.
Running XP Pro SP1.
Thanks.
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