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>The Microsoft solution, of course. :-) If you don't want/need to lay out the bucks for that, for personal use I'd recommend Zone Alarm. It's free for personal use, and it seems to work quite well.
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>Did you not use the word "personal"? Did you not bring zone Alarm into the discussion?
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>Tell me genius, what did I miss? FWIW, Proxy Server is pure crap. It is a bitch to set up. The administration tools are mediore at best. It is poorly documented. In short, Zone Alarm kicks its ass. If I had to choose a sofware based firewall for non-personal use - it sure as shit would not be proxy server.
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>For non-personal use, anybody not using a hardware based firewall solution is completely nuts
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>I'll bet the ranch and the dog that even MS uses something more substantial than Proxy Server.
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>Doug is correct - Proxy Server for personal use is a bit much. And, I will go one further, not only is a bit much with respect to effort to implement and administer, you don't get the return in performance. Zone Alarm does just fine.
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>Go have another sip of that MS Kool-Aid!!
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>>>Zone Alarm sound interesting though..
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>>As far as I can tell, it seems to be the best one to use. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, check www.grc.com to see for yourself.