If you’re plugged directly into the internet, no router or anything, 600 are very low. The internet is really 'dirty' with tons of infected computers trying to share the love. get your self a router and use that as an additional firewall, its not a true firewall, but it will serve as one, and it will take some of the load off of your system. In addition, software firewalls are vulnerable for a few ms when they are starting, in theory, something could get past after the network card comes online, but before the firewall does.
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