question to everyone:
Now that i have a stable and good anti-virus program what firewall do you all recommend? (Something that will co-exist with Avast.) Am running off of a cable modem with a router.
Thanks ???
zonealarm
Depends on what you want/can afford. www.zonlabs.com and ww.kerio.com have free firewall software for personal/non commercial use. Best protection is a router with build in firewall which will cost about 50 usd / 40 euro. If you want to know… Personally I run ZA Pro at home and a Zywell router at my store. If you thinking of getting Kerio Personal Firewall don’t get the 4.x version since it has some issues.
Me too (the Free version) 
Sygate Personal Firewall is good too.
Kerio and Outpost are for ‘advanced’ ones (rule based)
Outpost is easy to use. Interface looks complicated,but its not. And program control is very easy to control 
Oh and it uses very little memory.