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The 2005 Norton Internet Security pack comes with a personal firewall, Norton AV, and a few other things. The firewall in MS SP2 is decent, but I also use a blacklister (PeerGuardian2), but that's not really much use if you're not using P2P software. It does, however, block connections from spyware even if it's your computer that's trying to do the sending. Ad-Aware SE Personal is great for cookies and little bits and pieces of adware while Spybot S&D v1.3 takes care of spyware part. I also have a cracked copy of Xoftspy just for extra measure...even though it doesn't get much of anything that Ad-Aware won't. Personally, I'm loving PeerGuardian2. It lets me know who's trying to look at my comp (and even logs it) as well as letting me know if my computer is trying to send anything out so I can track down problems if they pop up in the window. Plus it blocks tons of IP ranges (something on the order of over 600,000,000). The only problem is that sometimes sites you visit maybe be flagged but that's easy enough to take care of since you can unblock an IP range for either 15 minutes, an hour, or permanently. Plus it's open source so it's always being improved. You'd be amazed at how many sites come back with hits for spyware that you'd never know about.