Hi FwF,
I think some of them are even dangerous, because you could miss critical security updates. On XP SP2 once the automatic updates were disabled for just a couple of days (slip of the sys.admin), I missed 33 updates. What is given in by common sense here , and as you say rightly so where is paranoia entering the game? But some feel safer by it.
OK if you block the last 3 digits of your ISP number when ZA connects to base, and they give you this opportunity themselves. Right. But when you connect to the Internet you know you are almost transparent these days in so many ways. Does it really help? Good to hear the pro's and cons.
polonus