Does anybody know how to just yank the son of a bitch out by the
fucking roots?

I know how to open ports via going into the Properties thingy on my
connection doohicky, that ain't the problem. The problem is that every
day or two XP just takes it upon its fucking self to CLOSE the ports I
opened. And it is irritating me no end.

I have a firewall in my router, and I don't mind putting a third-party
firewall on my computer if need be, but this piece of shit self
adjusting XP firewall has got to go. Suggestions?