>I think I need a software fire wall on my notebook. I used to use ZA 4.0 which was good. But then when they went to version 5.0 I heard some horror stories of things not working. So I never upgraded to 5.0. Then when I bought my new notebook I didn't install any firewall. I have McAfee AV, that's all. And I don't want to upgrade to the new version of McAfee because I saw a couple of messages on UT about problems with VS2005 and McAfee.
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>So I am considering buying ZoneAlarm 5.0 but wanted to know if they fixed the problems.
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>Thank you in advance for sharing your info.

I use free Comodi firewall http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/ and like it.
There's no reason to pay for McAfee or Norton AV because there're much better free products (for personal use):

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
I used both of them and they work fine.

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