Most people use a 3rd party firewall that has 'inbound monitoring'

and 'outbound monitoring,' so no need to run all the extra programs.
Most 3rd party firewalls disable Windows Firewall aswell. Me

personally I would just disable ICF, and get a good 3rd party

software like Agnitum Outpost. It has prebuilt rules which means:

Firewall Rules can be used to allow or deny traffic.

There are a few things to keep in mind which really apply to

computer security common sense, such as:

-Use a secure web browser, such as FireFox (FF) or Opera instead of

Internet Explorer (IE).
I have to disagree with the above statement simply because
IE has one major advantage over many of the freeware

browsers—it's easy to centrally control using Active Directory. Again, cannot do this with Firefox or Opera.

With AD locking down IE's configuration, you'll limit your users from

damaging themselves and your network. In order to do this, you'll

need to create a Group Policy.

You should have a look here:

http://redmondmag.com/features/artic...itorialsID=520


One of the main disadvantages of using the Mozilla Foundation FireFOX

open-source browser is that several web pages and services were built

for Internet Explorer compatibility, which is why FireFox users

sometimes get browsing errors.


Compatibility: Some webpages which do not follow the W3C

standards only work properly with Internet Explorer.

and configuring / tweaking IE can make a pretty secure web browser .

Cheers,
thesims