Windows' firewall is not outstanding.
Pick up Kerio's free Personal Firewall. It's being acquired by Sunbelt this month but you can still download it from Kerio's site: http://www.kerio.com/kpf_download.html It works as the full version for 30days then loses a few of the advanced features. Kicks Microsoft's firewall all around the room.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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