[HAL9000]

Many of the regulars that come here run firewalls themselves and have never had an attack as you state. Your claim only implies an attack while on this site, not necessarily from this site. I would also like to note that some software firewalls (Black Ice Defender in particular) are very prone to crying wolf and "announce" attacks that aren't really attacks. Even items that popup in the ever popular ZoneAlarm are not necessarily attacks. You may even get notifications of legitimate scans, but it isn't necessarily a direct attack on yourself, but rather a scan on an entire block of PC's searching for on that isn't secure.