joy grc.com has consistently rated sygate and zone alarm at the top of thepack for software firewalls, sygate being more speech friendly is the one i use. why pay for a firewall when the best ones are free for personal use. yes you can use norton firewall, its accessable but in my view not as easy to use as sygate. bill -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx