Firewalls (Was Re: What's a good Cable provider?)

[Victor Odhner]

Jonathan Claxton wrote:

>Just one little suggestion, get s firewall setup. I got one running IPCop in a separate
>box between the cable modem and my home system, keeps all them nosy people out. :)
>  
>
Supposing one does not (yet) have a separate firewall in place between 
the PC and Cox.
How exposed is a Bastille/psad-hardened desktop-usage box with virtually 
all services turned off?