Running IE with Firefox/mozila as a backup also running Ad-Aware and AVG.I tried Zone Alarm and found it very annoying.Any good suggestions?

Anyone!

Do you have a broadband connection? If so instead of hooking up direct to your cable modem or dsl modem buy a router with NAT. This is a hardware firewall. It hogs no resources. Somebody trying to hack can't see your computer past the router.

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Yes, I'd get an external firewall too. Some hardware ones have known security holes in them and others need to be reset several times per week, so read up on them and make sure you've got a good return policy. That's not all I'd get, though.

One thing that helps you see whether your computer has a rogue program is a software firewall that asks you right away when Program X wants to access the Internet. If I were you, I'd just get used to Zone Alarm because it does this pretty well. We've got it on some teaching lab computers and it's OK once the learning is done. Now I know someone who's had problems with Zone Alarm directly after installing SP2 for XP, so I don't doubt that ZA would be problematic in some cases...

We all know Windoze is insecure, but it also comes that way from the factory. Check out http://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm for ways on making it more secure and testing your firewall. Shields-up mates.

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