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Theo · 03-07-2007, 08:26 PM

I noticed an increasing trend over the last months of ppl complaining that they got hacked, had their info stolen, overcharged credit cards etc. This is going to get even worse.

If you follow the news, there's apparently an underground market among criminals that sell and buy any kind of data they can acquire from their victims. Webmasters should have an extra reason to worry due to extra valuable data they store in their PCs such servers logins, passwords for domains etc. Windows firewall offers very limited protection and an antivirus alone isn't gonna make the difference.

I gathered below 4 of the best performing firewalls:

http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com (freeware)
http://www.jetico.com/jpf2.htm (freeware)
http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/index.php (shareware)
http://www.kaspersky.com/kis6 (shareware)

They are all equally good and they'll pretty much eliminate most of the threats you could face. I personally recommend comodo as a complete solution that is also easy to use and very light application.

I've asked various PC users in the past why they dont use a firewall and they usually reply they dont know how-to. Really, there's nothing hard when it comes to installing and setup of most firewalls. It wont get you more than 15min to become familiar with it and could be extremely beneficial.

think about it !

03-07-2007, 08:26 PM
Theo HAL 9000 Industry Role: Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 34,515	If you haven't done so yet, it's good time to install a firewall in your PC I noticed an increasing trend over the last months of ppl complaining that they got hacked, had their info stolen, overcharged credit cards etc. This is going to get even worse. If you follow the news, there's apparently an underground market among criminals that sell and buy any kind of data they can acquire from their victims. Webmasters should have an extra reason to worry due to extra valuable data they store in their PCs such servers logins, passwords for domains etc. Windows firewall offers very limited protection and an antivirus alone isn't gonna make the difference. I gathered below 4 of the best performing firewalls: http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com (freeware) http://www.jetico.com/jpf2.htm (freeware) http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/index.php (shareware) http://www.kaspersky.com/kis6 (shareware) They are all equally good and they'll pretty much eliminate most of the threats you could face. I personally recommend comodo as a complete solution that is also easy to use and very light application. I've asked various PC users in the past why they dont use a firewall and they usually reply they dont know how-to. Really, there's nothing hard when it comes to installing and setup of most firewalls. It wont get you more than 15min to become familiar with it and could be extremely beneficial. think about it !