Hello all, can anyone recommend me a firewall, which is user friendly, rather than Sygate or zone alarm please? I have been using Sygate under windows xp for quite a long time and it started playing up recently. It takes five or six minutes to start on start-up and I cannot use the internet or the email clients before it starts. It also interferes with Microsoft word where for no reason it comes up and warns me that such and such application is trying to access the internet. I really do not know what it is all about. Anyway, I think it is time that I tried something else. Thank you. -------------------- Ali LL.B London UK alpot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ** Going on holiday and want to halt messages? Send a message to:- ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** vacation ## d ** where ## is the number of days followed by d for days. ** For other things like digest mode, send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq