Dear sir, Can u please tell me that which Firewall is best & it will not slow the internet speed while serffing.Some says that Zone Alarm slow the speed of the Internet because the data of the internet first come in the Firewall & then it enter in the Brower. I want to download any one of them...Please tell me whiich is the best amont these , will not consume my system resoures ,& sent me a signal that soem one is entering in my PC. Iam using win98. 1---sygate. 2---Kerio 3----Zone Alarm. Thanks, gardenair .

My personal preference would be Kerio or the free Tiny Personal Firewall. Either one of these will not slow you down nor use a lot of resources. Good Luck :-)Cat

First choice for you Kerio, then Sygate and finally Zone Alarm. Kerio is not quite as easy to use as Sygate. The TINY firewall, that CAT recommends is Kerio. TINY changed its company direction and ploicy, and many of the developers started Kerio. It is easier to obtain customer support for Kerio, as the free TINY firewall is no longer supported by the TINY Co. There are forums for all of these products to assit you in setting them up and resolving any problems. Take care and all the best!

Sygate free one, its really easy to work with, does not slow surfing and lets you control what you want to allow or disallow, I tried Kerio seem to be good but hard for me to configure, and use to use Zone Alarm (the Free one) and had conflicts.

SYGATE

I definitely agree for SYGATE, I like the interface with the three windows showing in real time the internet flux and the control immediately of the detection of any attempts via internet by searching identification of the IP's, option which is not avalaible on Freeware Zone Alarm

My pick is ZoneAlarm 3 i had tiny personal firewall but it stopped working on my windows xp machine on win 98 tiny and zonealarm are good