I used to use Zone Alarm and liked it back when we had cable internet. Steve Gibson, a firewall guru, rates Zone Alarm as the best available, at least back then. I haven't checked recently. He has a website that will test your system and tell you of its vulnerabilities. I ran it with and without zone alarm and found without ZA I was wide open. ZA shut that down.
By the way, it's not that Microsoft's Internet Explorer is any more susceptible to virus and worms than any other browser. It's just they're the biggest and thus the target of the large majority of hackers. None of them are ironclad non-susceptible, unfortunately.
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