Thanks for that Walt. Am going to upgrade next year to LongHorn and a Silent computer (no fans and no hard drive noise) and will include this. Deon At 13:59 05/20/2005, you wrote: >Invest a few dollars in a router and let it offload the firewall work >from your computer. I've used a Linksys router for several years and >have had zero problems of any kind that could be attributed to firewall >protection. You'd still need an antivirus program of some sort running >on the PC, itself, and I've used Norton and, now, McAfee with no >problems.=20 > >-----Original Message----- >From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of >peter.rand@xxxxxxxxxxxx >Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 6:48 AM >To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [bookport] Re: No new updates for me. > >profbiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:=20 > >> I use Jaws and have over the years tried many firewalls. The one I >have found to be most simple and accessible is OutPost Pro by Agnitum. > >This has also been my experience. I use the freeware version of the >OutPost=20 >firewall, and it works very well on my WinXP machine.=20 > >OutPost can be downloaded from=20 ><http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html>=20 > >Peter