which Firewall / Security

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a cheap and excellent router solution is

http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?sec=Products&pg=Product-Details&prod=290&site=c

is tested in German-Chip Magazin and have the highest Security off all
tested

it has NAT and SPI Firewall included and the Wireless component offers WPA
which has a better security than only 128Bit

works also with IPphones and you can open ports, set DMZ and so on... if
needed also included is a software firewall

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But if you have Wireless components Attention: all wireless cards must
support WPA

if you use Win2000 you need a 3rd party addon to get WPA work

http://www.wirelesssecuritycorp.com/wsc/public/index.jsp

here is the only freeware (WPAAssistant) I found to do this job

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a good starting point to check the security of your network/firewall should
be

http://www.sygatetech.com/

there you can scan your PC different security leaks

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good software to protect your computer yourself (I use all of them on my PC
without any problems) against Spyware and Trojans

http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=de&page=download

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

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and of course you need a good antivirus program for your PC

http://www.f-secure.com/index.shtml - should be the best at the moment
(don't know - I haven't tested it yet myself)

I use http://www.v-com.com/product/SystemSuite_Home.html and I'm happy with
it
(there you get Firewall/Antivirus and System tools in one package - and it
works even better than the well kown Norton tools)

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and don't trust one antivirus program - I do weekly tests with a online
virus scanner

http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

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and at last don't use Microsoft products to surf the web/look at your emails

use Mozilla Firebird http://www.mozilla.org/ or a other browsers

Hackers pay more attention to IE products than to other browser cause of its
high circulation

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and hold your PC up to date with the MS security fixes

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I don't think you can find one product to do all security job - all of them
has pro and cons but
a mix of them should do the job


Hope you can understand my bungler english and it helps for your decision

Bye and good trades

Ralf