Oh the shame....

[confus-ed]

..I have worked with 8Signs and CheckPoint s/w firewalls and am aware of the the complexities of setup. ZoneAlarm seems adequate for my personal use, and it is very affordable. The others are not affordable for legal personal use..

He-he-he 'doing you down' there a bit was I ? Sorry dude its pretty well impossible for me to figure out & remember who knows what about particular things - I will though say perhaps have a look at Kerio which is also free & I find it much easier to relate to than ZA in terms of rule writing & fathoming out what the hell is going on -

Arrrrrgh ! edit : look at this, they are stopping support for Kerio .. (Scratch my last suggestion! ) Kerio Personal Firewall is being discontinued on December 31, 2005. While Kerio will continue to support this product for all customers through 2006, we will not be actively developing any new features or functionality going forward

As for stuff being 'busted' on your own machines, well ... that just shows you are busy ! (That's my excuse anyway & I'm sticking to it ! )