My backup ISP is (b) but they recommend personal firewall
because their firewall don't protect from attacks from neighbor
computer. They also recommend antivirus programs even they
scan e-mails against viruses. There is always new viruses what
AV programs don't recognize and personal firewall is good to detect
them.

Toomas


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Gillett" <[log in to unmask]>


>  If your ISP (a) owned the PC, and (b) was taking steps in their network to
> firewall your traffic, then it might be appropriate for them to instruct you
> not to install one.  Since neither of these is likely to be true, I would
> assume that their advice is based on time wasted trouble-shooting "not
> working" connections, only to discover that the connection was fine and just
> a misconfigured firewsll was blocking traffic.  The recommendation is in
> their interest, not yours.
>
>  There's a free version of Zone Alarm which is a pretty good place to
> start.
>
> David Gillett
>

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