<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by richard:
I have used Sygate for years with good result. Meaning that it hasn't caused many problems and seems to monitor outgoing and incoming packets well, has a good way to allow those packets I want to come through or go out, and has a good user interface.</font>
Another convert from Zone Alarm to Sygate - Sygate is more intuitive, and provides better information about what's going on.
My father-in-law elected to try the free Zone Alarm Pro for 14 days. It promptly unloaded his Winsocks protocol - a very safe option