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    Firewalls

    Can someone suggest some good Firewalls please?

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    I am going to assume that you are a windows user.

    Try out these.

    Tiny Personal Firewall

    Zone Alarm

    and if you do not mind paying for a firewall you might have a look at Black Ice.

    If you are a Unix user, OpenBSD running ipfilter is the only way to go in my opinion.
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    Use [http://www.zonelabs.com/]Zone Alarm[/url], it's the best firewall I've come across, plus it's free for personal use. Avoid Black Ice Defender like the plague.
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    That should be Zone Alarm, bit of trouble with the vB Code!
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    The free version of ZoneAlarm is good but watch out for the Pro version. I got the demo for it and on my Win98 box it crashed it every time I turned my comp on. I had to uninstall it from safe-mode because the true vector thing is what caused all the problems.

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    Have a look here and read what other people on AO view as good firewalls, many providing good reasons for why they believe them to be good firewalls..
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    Thanks for the suggestions.

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