Deep C,
I use Windows XP.
After some advise on this forum I have Zone Alarm (free version) running along with SPyBot (free version) and the (still) free trial version of Norton Anti Virus.
No problems encountered sofar. I update all above mentioned regularly and make the occasional visit to (micro trend's ?)'House Call', just for fun.
All is going fine while using (low speed) BroadBand (ADSL)
But I could not tell you if the XP firewall is actually activated.
Goates/Richard: how do you check the status of the XP firewall? I can not find a menu for that in XP.
IFTB