I have try the neweste Zone alarm firewall witch should be compatible but that gave vista to come forward with the famous windows blue screen???

Edited September 18, 200718 yr by the-matrix

u have to disable the windows firewall but just to let u know vista doesnt need a firewall the built in one is just as good as zone alarm just no reports so just stay up-to-date and ull be fine

For 32-bit you can try LooknStop or PC Tools Firewall Plus.

For 64-bit there is a beta of LooknStop.

The firewall built into windows is pretty comprehensive. But you should have a hardware firewall.

This would be a cable/dsl router. Searching for that should get you more then enough product results.

Having one of these has several benefits.

Filters traffic at a hardware level. Free's up your computer from having to process all those packets to determine whether or not to let it in.

Forces you to explicitly open ports on the front end. Unless your applications are all uPnP, then you'll have to make the consious effort to open up the ports. This might seem like a drag, but it's easy, and it's a good additional way to make you ask yourself if this is really the right thing I should be doing.

In my opinion, the windows firewall is a good last ditch defense against internal network worms if something does get through to another machine. In my case my wife has a tendancy to download nasty things. So the firewall on my box helps keep me clean

This is my setup at home

Dlink DIR-655 router

Standard Vista Firwall and Windows Defender

aVast antivirus