(ven)ti(l)ator

Whines

Niches

False

TPB is quite annoyed about something

auto(cla)v(e)

Shriek

Bicker

Cakier isn't a word is it

Sicker

Sucked

(re)sent(ful)

True (ish)

The person below is playing flash games

(pan)ca(ke)

I personally use Tiny Personal Firewall which is very good, easily configured and has a relatively small footprint. It is not readily available now as CA took over Tiny Software but there you could get the CA firewalls, though i can not say how easy they are to use or how well they work.