but of course i cant find it now, nor am i gonna start a fight over the crappy OS to begin with
I knew I heard lies being told somewhere. But, I will contain myself.

In regards to Windows-based firewalls, I'll never use another firewall after having tasted the configurability and management of Kerio:

1. Boottime firewall protection per NIC. Instead of having the firewall load after being logged in, it loads as a system process and is thus running before you login (to help block incoming bootup attacks and incoming bootup-viri)

2. Built in IDS. Not entirely nessessary, but useful nonetheless.

3. Incoming detection, outgoing detection, program internet usage detection, program startup detection, program asking another program to startup detection.

4. Remote configuration with passworded SSL security (off by default).


Okay, yeah I need to stop before I respond to the "windows is crappy comment"