For the record:
Every test I could find on that Firewall testing page passed my system (and my wife's, which runs Trillian) as fully secure:
Linksys Broadband Router
Windows Firewall
IE 8 (somewhat modified for higher security)
Windows Defender
Avast! Free
Ad-Aware Free
I do agree with Microhue's backing up philosophy. But that's mostly because I work on the philosophy that a disk *will* fail, and you *will* lose all
the data on it, so keep copies of important stuff.
I personally have a secondary disk in my PC where I copy all essential stuff from my system disk (personal data, etc). That disk is then copied to an external.
I then copy that stuff to a DVD, and take it with me to work.
Every test I could find on that Firewall testing page passed my system (and my wife's, which runs Trillian) as fully secure:
Linksys Broadband Router
Windows Firewall
IE 8 (somewhat modified for higher security)
Windows Defender
Avast! Free
Ad-Aware Free
I do agree with Microhue's backing up philosophy. But that's mostly because I work on the philosophy that a disk *will* fail, and you *will* lose all
the data on it, so keep copies of important stuff.
I personally have a secondary disk in my PC where I copy all essential stuff from my system disk (personal data, etc). That disk is then copied to an external.
I then copy that stuff to a DVD, and take it with me to work.