I'm on Telewest Blueyonder Broadband in the UK and reaquainted myself with ZoneAlarm recently. Every ten seconds I was notified of some port intrusion, some from Blueyonder IP's, some not. Telewest informs me that their servers will port scan clients. Does this seem reasonable? Most of the other port intrusions I presume are from virus-hijacked computers?
Furthermore, as ZoneAlarm has this nasty side-effect of crashing my computer, I'd like to replace it with a much more reliable means of security--a router. Does anyone have any opinions as to why a hardware firewall (I'm leaning toward Linksys BEFW11S4) might NOT be a better idea than software firewall?
I know ZoneAlarm isn't the end all and be all of firewalls. I like Norton's antivirus, maybe their Internet Security combo is decent? Though ...it's still cheaper to buy the router!
Thanks for your opinions in advance.
Evan Joanette snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.dot.com