[84porsche]

I think Zone Alarm and Windows XP firewall protection are good but Zone Alarm may make surfing the web a little hard with having to identify which sites are good and which are bad. I also have installed Norton Systemworks 2004 for basic virus protection and have a Linksys Router which acts as a firewall for my computer. I think you just need some good virus software and you need to make sure you update Windows consistently so that you are protected from loopholes in the programming.