Thank you John.  I appreciate the information.  When I visited a site to 
test my firewall protection ( http://grc.com/default.htm ), ZoneAlarm 
did indeed block well.  However, when I turned off ZoneAlarm, my 
hardware firewall (yes, expensive - Linksys Cable/Dsl Firewall/Router) 
allowed the site to breach the firewall. 

I don't know how to set my hardware firewall to make it work better.  I 
know that some bad software can disable anti-virus and software 
firewalls, so I would like my hardware firewall to be working properly.  
Do you know how I can change the settings? 

BTW, the site mentioned above said that BlackIce Firewall did a poor job 
and that they had tried to get around the testing at the above site with 
code several times, without actually improving the program.

Thank you again, John, for your help,
-Ann Fennell

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