Norton Personal Firewall 2003 is a fine app to protect from hackers. it gives you an option to scan for internet enabled programs in your hard drive and lets you to choose which programs you wanna allow them to access the internet. so you no need to bother of allowing to each and every program to protect from the internet. i couldn't find a similar option in McAfee Firewall yet. If u r using Nortan AntiVirus 2003, it well intergrates with the virus scanner as well. Compatibility with windows xp is excellent and proves it is stable under the operating enviornment. so i use Norton Personal Firewall 2003 and Norton AntiVirus 2003

There is nothing in this discussion that make me even consider to leave Outpost.

I also start to understand why this question always make people going and create long threads... And I believe it can be both entertaining and educating at the same time.

You see, to me everything Norton (except the non-Norton-origin Ghost) is a joke.

The option McoreD mentions for example is a quite useless one. For example I want Internet Exploded to be able to visit the Net. This doesn't mean I wan't it to visit Microsoft Search at MSN. Iwant to check my ISPs homepage every now and then, but I don't want my ISP to check my ftp-server. You get it? The list can be mighty long with exceptions and there will never be such easy solutions as "enable a list of apps and be set".

Integrating with a viiri-scanner? Is that amazing or is it only something Norton/Symantec points at to make uncertain users convinced that here is an excellent product with features you don't dare saying No thanks to?

May it even be as so often - it's a question of personal taste mixed with common sense?

i uninstalled all the firewalls,
it was hell annoying :D :D