A perfect personal firewall is characterized as inexpensive and easy to install and use with clearly defined configuration options and the ability to hide all ports that will make your computer system invisible from PC scans. Another important characteristic is that is alerts you of serious attacks and ensure that there are no unauthorized entries to your computer system.

Microsoft Windows firewall is usually the choice because it is bundled with the Microsoft Windows Operating System (Vista and XP Service Pack 2 editions) and is usually turned on by default in order to block incoming threats from the Internet. Until you have a decent third party firewall replacement, this built-in feature in Windows should be left turned on.

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