> From: Ronn Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Here's a recommendation I received on this topic:
>
> I use Tiny Personal Firewall. I read quite a bit before I made a choice.
> Tiny Personal and ZoneAlarm are the two most highly recommended products.
> Personal routers are also a good addition. According to http://www.grc.com,
> Black Ice doesn't really work as advertised. I don't know, but the internet
> geeks seem to agree on this point.
>
> There are also some good ad blockers. I use Proximitron, but there are
Proxomitron.
^
You can daisy chain it through webwasher and other things.
> several others that are supposed to be very good.
> Another product that I have found useful is Ad-Aware. It checks your
> system, similar to a virus check, for adware cookies and processes that
> stealthily send your information out to various systems on the internet.
"who's watching me" another good program.
> All of these products are free.
AntiVir:
http://www.free-av.com/
cookiepal:
www.kburra.com
hfnetchk:
www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=31154&area=featured&ordinal=2
