Whats a little firewall between friends?
The Personal Firewalls page discusses firewall technology in detail and contains my reviews of five I have looked at closely. A true personal firewall can provide extremely robust intruder protection, analysis, and monitoring of all internet activity. My favorite firewall, ZoneAlarm 2, is FREE for individual use. I think this stuff is way cool so I will be creating a feature-packed firewall of my own, see box below. If you have no immediate need to share your files with any other computer local or remote the safest, cleanest, and simplest solution is the “unbinding” of Windows insecure networking client from your network. And you should ABSOLUTELY do this even if you plan to get a firewall . . . mine or someone else’s.
