From: "John Beamish" 

How does it compare to the free version of Zone Alarm?

"Geo."  wrote in message
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> If you want a decent firewall for a home machine, www.sygate.com and grab
> the free version (free to home users). Couple features are limited but the
> default settings for those features are pretty decent. What I like most
> about the firewall is that if someone port scans you, it completely blocks
> them so if you use high ports for something they either have to do a
> distributed scan or scan 4 ports every 10 minutes to find out which ports
> you have open.
>
> Geo.

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