Recommendations for personal Windows firewall software?

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From: Raymond Yee (yee@uclink.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2001 - 14:56:07 PST

Are there any official recommendations on whether it is a good idea to run personal
firewall software (for Windows machines) -- and if so, what products are good ones?

I'd be interested in hearing your experiences and thoughts. The article

http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s%253D1498%2526a%253D4536,00.asp

puts in a strong plug for ZoneAlarm (http://www.zonelabs.com/), especially because of its
strong performance on the "LeakTest" (http://grc.com/lt/scoreboard.htm) Anyone vouch for
ZoneAlarm?

(I see that John Broughton mentions ZoneAlarm in a April 2000 article on DSL/cable modem
security: http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/PDF/apr2000.pdf or
http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/Apr_May2000/sec.dsl.html)

Thanks in advance,

-Raymond Yee 

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