Add-on Firewall Products for Windows
Commercial products called personal firewalls are designed for use on PCs. These types of products—Norton Internet Security (www.symantec.com), for instance—range in price from free to about $80. Now that Windows includes an integral firewall, and Microsoft offers a free antivirus program, add-on products might no longer be necessary, and I personally don’t think that it’s worth paying for a software firewall program alone. Windows Firewall is good enough, it’s free, and it’s built in. It’s far more important that you keep Windows and all of your add-on applications up to date, and use Windows Security Essentials or a third-party antivirus/antispyware program. On the other hand, some of the third-party firewalls ...
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