my router is firewalled and nothing at all hits the pc so i only use zone alarm to control what goes *out* of my pc. everything nowadays trys desperately hard to grass you up or download updates.
never had a virus yet, so don't use anything. might look at the one mentioned now though. was kinda looking on and off for a good free one.
Im not smart or a techy but i use AVG antivirus and Zonealarm firewall (and also spybot for the adware and tracking cookies, thats a good one) and i dont ever have any problems, and its very easy to use
Always found it more powerful yet easier to use than Zone Alarm. Might just be me but I could never work out wtf was going on in ZA whereas I could instantly tell everything that was happening in Outpost.
i could never get on with ZA. as Ag says, it's a bit yo counter-intuative. I used to use Tiny Personal Firewall, but it went overcomplex after version 2.5.