I have used zone alarm for a couple years and I tried sygate too but found sysgate was a pain i use zonealarm pro now and it works fine as i have dsl and 96 yahoo email accts and a few elsewhere, and have made a few enemies because i take no ones crap. but it has stopped everyone so far.

I also run a internet washer and a adaware prog, and another windows cleaner set to wipe every hour and when i shut the browser down and when the comp shuts off.

The free anti virus of anti_vir is a great one at www.free-av.com and zone alarm works fine as most of the time i leave computer on 24/7