>Ok, what holes and what kind of trucks. How is Zone alarm better? I am not pro anything I would like to know what to look for. I down loaded the testleak program and ran it here at work. To be honest it was not informitive. It said that our firewall allowed us to contact its ip address. Why is that important? I believe you I just would like a bit more than just your word on the issue.
>TIA
>Bruce

I've heard (so take it for what it's worth), that the Norton Firewall does NOT close access to all ports completely. It leaves several rather well known ports wide open to access from the outside world. I've also heard this is true for a lot of the commercially available software firewalls. I've used Steve Gibson's products for years, and I trust his judgement.

Leak test is a Q & D kind of test. Run the ShieldsUp test at the www.grc.com site and be sure to read all of the explainations of things on the site. Very informative (and very scary) if this is your first forray into security issues.