i hate it when i get these emails
 

Security Alert from Sygate Personal Firewall

One or more security issues were raised in your system BITCHSLAP protected by Sygate Personal Firewall. Please see the following details:
1. Port Scan
Severity: Minor
Traffic type: Incoming Tcp traffic
Begin time: 03/11/2003 17:56:18 End time: 03/11/2003 17:56:18
Remote host: 66.230.141.118 Local host: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Number of attack(s): 1
Application involved: N/A

For more information, please go to Sygate Personal Firewall->Log Viewer->Security Log.

Sygate Technologies, Inc. (http://www.sygate.com)

It was just a port scan. I get scanned all day. Its just someones bot doing its job.

my kielbasa sasauge has just got to perform

yeah, but i'll feel better when i get a hardware firewall. i was looking into that netgear (i think fs318) 8-port firewall w/ nat, stateful packet inspection and 8 tunnel vpn. any good?

ideally i'd get a sonicwall, but don't really want to spend 400+ bones for a home network ATM.