Zigar:the men in black suits in really hard to happen. i live in europe , portugal to be precise, and there isn´t a big chance that hackers will pick me because i´m still in the oldie 56k connection.
Still there aren´t any kind of regulations for hacking attacks in my coutry ( at least not that i know of ) so i could do whatever i wnted and nothing happened. Anyway as i´m not sure of this i´ll check it out.
As for the isp´s issue what do you mean by "boot"? Discard them? Close their connection? I should say that my connection is better then alway without my firewall!

I still say that cd-rw is always better than a firewall!