[Bloody Sam Roberts]

In addition to Firefox, a good router for a firewall and regular spyware searches and cleanings, I recommend the use of Outpost Personal Firewall. It's free, small and damned effective.

For the sad truth is that a hardware firewall/router will NOT protect your PC from attacks initiated from behind the firewall. Such attacks are initiated by spyware that has already infected the PC. Without something like Outpost, you're a sitting duck.

Get Them Shields UP!

[stylin_geek]

While I've been running some sort of firewall since I first got DSL 5 years ago, I still think the companies that provide broadband service and sell their hardware are completely irresponsible, in that they don't provide any sort of firewall built into the hardware they supply.

[gopheraj]

I checked it out and want to go to that. However, it says that you can't run it with other firewall sotfware. Would that new Spyblaster from Windows be considered a firewall?