The release of the original free ZoneAlarm utility in 1999 effectively created the personal firewall market. Over the years, that initial simple tool has evolved into a range of security products, ...

Firewalls act as gatekeepers that regulate data flow between internal and external networks based on security rules, while antivirus tools detect malicious activity in a computer or network system ...

Let’s face it: Connecting your computer to the Internet is like sending your kids out to play in the traffic. With snoops, hackers, virus writers, script kiddies, worms, Trojan horses — and oh, yeah, ...

We don’t know what processes and executables are running on our computer if we don’t check the list in the Task Manager. There might be some malware or programs that are not permitted generally ...

Other things have changed, too. Today, standalone firewall products are more the exception than the rule. I took a look at five major firewalls on the market today, and almost everything that came my ...

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Free firewalls offer the outbound monitoring that's missing in XP's firewall and off by default (and impractical) in Vista, but third-party tools may create problems of their own. Dennis O'Reilly ...