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OK so you have visited www.grc.com and you have discovered that you are leaking out information for all to see out of some of your computers ports. You now have three choices as far as i see 1.never go on to the internet again 2.I dont care who sees my personal information 3.Install a personal firewall We all know option 1 is just not feasable as you are addicted to Dooyoo option2 is a bit daft so its looking like you will have to install a personal firewall There are many out there to choose from and the prices vary enormously,I have seen some advertised for over £40.However there is no need to spend anything on one as ...  Read the complete review

It’s a firewall With ZoneAlarm Installed, your computer is effec-tively hidden from the rest, of the online world. In other words, potential hackers simply don't know that you exist. There's no better security than Invisibility. ZoneAlarm also pops up a warning message every time one of your programs tries to access the Inter-net. You can see exactly what your computer is up to and decide for yourself which applications - say, your web browser -are allowed unre-stricted access, and which should always ask per-mission. You might be surprised just how many programs try to use your Internet connec-tion on the fly -and you may very well wonder why! ...  Read the complete review

Initially I was a little sceptical as to how much I would need a firewall. After all, who's likely to want to see the contents of my PC? Then you get to thinking - well, I've got all my dial-up passwords, I've got records of online transactions... Yes, I decided it was better to be safe than sorry. ZoneAlarm is the ideal piece of software for safeguarding your PC. It runs all the time in the background, monitoring any attempted connections to your computer. Alerts can be set to flash up on screen if anything fishy is detected, otherwise they can be sent to a log file to look through later. It allows you to set a security level to ...  Read the complete review

the internet has became huge, they say each month the worlds internet users doubles every day! and how many of theose new users do you think are honest every day users like me and you? so with this threat of lets say a 10000 new hackers every day we are goning to have to think about, protecting our own privacy. But how you might say well one way is to use a firewall such as ZoneAlarm this nice pice of software sits in your system tray and tells you when some one trys to connect to your PC, hackers do this by scaning your IP adress and then try and connect to a port. Zone alarm will not only tell you when this is happing but it will automatical stop them and then ...  Read the complete review