Originally Posted by Talk Wrench
Seems Norton ait so good.
Mac, Do you have a link for Opera?
Yup.
http://www.opera.com/
Opera is the fastest of all the browsers, the only one that is truly W3C compliant, is pretty secure, has lots of options and as a bonus has an excellent built-in email client.
If I wasn't so dependent on my Firefox plugins I'd switch today.
As an aside, there are good arguments for saying XP's own inbound firewall is "good enough" (and you CAN tweak the reasonable defaults a bit tighter). As regards the "no outbound filtering" - to some extent it's accurate to say that once you've GOT malware in your PC trying to connect out then you're already in the dwang...
Windows Defender -
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...e/default.mspx
- is actually pretty good (hint: MS bought it from Giant Software and rebranded it) and I'd recommend anyone running Windows to use it.