I have a hardware firewall that came installed on this computer. All I can say is that since I have this feature I don't get the spam or viruses that I got on my old machine. Judith ----- Original Message ----- From: RAWest To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:58 AM Subject: Re: firewalls Avg has a nice one as part of there internet security package. Go here: http://www.grisoft.com ----- Original Message ----- From: seawinds To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:50 PM Subject: firewalls what is the best firewall that works with jaws. i on my own so it got to work completely. mel