<6. Get a cheap system (e.g. noiseless mini-ITX) for use as a gateway/firewall. This will do you **very** good in the
long run.> ClearOS (used to be clarkconnect) is really nice for firewall, intrusion detection, logging, etc. Did I mention FREE? Since I've been running our home computer (5) through the web proxy, using medium filter rules and some custom tweaking, it's hard to get malware and viruses even if you try. During testing using VM's I've visited some know bad sites and nothing as gotten through. Saves you a lot of cleanup and scanning in the long run. It will run smoothly on a 500MHz box as long as you have 512+ RAM. Smoothwall is also pretty slick. lopaka
