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I am very seriously considering installing the [url="http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm"]Kerio[/url] firewall, now owned by Sunbelt. I already use Sunbelt's anti spyware, which is an excellent product.

So, I'm wondering about Sunbelt's firewall. Has anyone had experience with it? I've looked around the net at reviews, and they seem very favourable, but I also wanted to ask here

I'm also not completely sure I need a firewall. I have the built-in Windows one, I use AV, and several antispyware applications, and since I've been doing all of that, I have not had any problems at all. Periodically, I do some of the free OL scans offered by the major AV products, and I always come up squeaky clean.

You probably don't need one. Chances are, your router offers a layer of protection through NAT, and Windows Firewall is decent.
The advantages commercial firewalls offer over Windows Firewall is the ability to let you decide which programs can access the internet. Whether this is advantageous is debatable, since once you've run a malicious executable, it'll have absolutely no problems disabling whatever software firewall you've installed.

If you're dead set on getting a firewall, I'd recommend either Tiny Personal Firewall, or an earlier version of Kerio (2.1.something). Both of those are very sparing on system resources and offer the features as their newer counterparts sans the bells and whistles.