[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

I'm not an expert on this sort of stuff ... ( I know enough to keep me out of trouble ) but what about using ' packet inspection '
If you haven't requested it through your firewall ...then the firewall ( a decent one ) should block / reject any incoming data / ping etc.

Another thing ... anything trying to ' phone home ' with your data .... it would be great if it was sent to an IP Address of 127.0.0.1 ...in other words...no mans land ... a dead end....or just keeps ' looping '

One other thing ...make sure your file sharing port 139 ( Net BIOS ) is either closed ( a hacker with a port scanner will still see it and may return later to see if it is open ) ... or better still ..Port 139 is in 'Stealth' mode ...can't be seen.

Below is a report on my Computer's vulnerability to the Internet.... done a few minutes ago.
I deliberately requested a server in Colorado USA to do a ' packet inspection' on my Computer.

My Computer refused to ' respond ' to the ' intrusion '
GRC Port Authority Report created on UTC: 2012-12-22 at 00:39:14 Results from scan of ports: 0, 21-23, 25, 79, 80, 110, 113, 119, 135, 139, 143, 389, 443, 445, 1002, 1024-1030, 1720, 5000 0 Ports Open 0 Ports Closed 26 Ports Stealth --------------------- 26 Ports Tested ALL PORTS tested were found to be: STEALTH. TruStealth: PASSED - ALL tested ports were STEALTH, - NO unsolicited packets were received, - NO Ping reply (ICMP Echo) was received.


Attempting connection to your computer. . .
Shields UP! is now attempting to contact the Hidden Internet Server within your PC. It is likely that no one has told you that your own personal computer may now be functioning as an Internet Server with neither your knowledge nor your permission. And that it may be serving up all or many of your personal files for reading, writing, modification and even deletion by anyone, anywhere, on the Internet!Your Internet port 139 does not appear to exist!
One or more ports on this system are operating in FULL STEALTH MODE! Standard Internet behavior requires port connection attempts to be answered with a success or refusal response. Therefore, only an attempt to connect to a nonexistent computer results in no response of either kind. But YOUR computer has DELIBERATELY CHOSEN NOT TO RESPOND (that's very cool!) which represents advanced computer and port stealthing capabilities. A machine configured in this fashion is well hardened to Internet NetBIOS attack and intrusion.Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer.
All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Relative to vulnerabilities from Windows networking, this computer appears to be VERY SECURE since it is NOT exposing ANY of its internal NetBIOS networking protocol over the Internet.

I am using both Wireless and Ethernet cable connected Computers to the Internet.

Flash ..!!