Dedicated firewalls are better...

[The_Unbeliever]

The Mail and Guardian have an interesting article regarding virtual firewalls. These are firewalls which runs in the background on your Windows PC.

The article can be found here.

Regards

Libs

 

[!!DV!!]

Windows and firewall can not be used in the same sentence.
If your only defence is a firewall app loaded on a windows XP Box your are already in trouble without you knowning it.

Don't get me wrong there are very good app out there Zonealarm etc.. They just don;t cut it from a corporate stand point.

 

[ivansa]

Firewall app loaded on a windows is only good to keep fellow employee's out.

Even Bill gates runs his servers behind dedicated Unix firewalls.

For home users with kids I would rather install a separate Firewall like IPCOP.

Rather safe than sorry.