Joel Michael wrote: > > As for good Windows-based free firewalls, i'm not aware that such an > animal exists... for a half-decent firewall for windows, you're probably > going to have to shell out a bit of cash (correct me if i'm wrong!). In > my humble opinion, windows is too inherently insecure to warrant putting > a firewall on it - it's sort of like a band-aid solution. also, you > don't have anything TO firewall if you don't have file sharing turned on > or running the personal web server, or are not running whatever other > windows network services that happen to exist. Well, there's ZoneAlarm (www.zonelabs.com), which is a freeware tool which gives pretty good protection for Windows-based systems. As I've said before, though, it's a personal firewall only, and definitely not designed to be any more than that. I use it at home, because I'm connected through the @home network, and it gives me a little bit more security on the Windows 98 system than I would otherwise have. -- LJM - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
