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[HedCold]

if your computer is behind a router, someone connecting to your ip won't connect directly to your computer. it would have to route itself through the router and find the ip you use on the mini network. the mpaa doesn't check anything this way, but just for normal security vs hackers/script kiddies its a reasonably good thing to have. with windows xp firewall turnd on though it stops alot of the stuff, but i'm sure people who know what they're doing can still get through if they wanted too

if you have a firewall setup that logs stuff, you'll probably see random things pinging your ip. if you didn't have any firewall set up (software or hardware) these would be more of a problem