NIS 2004 or hardware firewall?

Someone has given me a new sealed copy of Norton Internet Security
(2004) with a validation code on it and I am wondering if there is anything
on it which could be of use to me. Does anyone have a view on this? Or is
it yet
another resource hog which, like their other programs, Symantec sell but
don't dare support ?

Do it's antispam features work (90% of all spam I receive gets sent through
to my deleted items folder by Outlook already)?

Or do it's security and pop-up blocking features do anything which Adaware
or Spybot don't do? I think that at the moment I am using not one but TWO
hardware firewalls, one on my Buffalo WiFi router and one on the in-series
Linksys router supplied by my VOIP service. Buffalo once told me that there
is no conceivable need for a software firewall if you have a hardware one.
(But I seem to remember the useful configurability of AtGuard which became
part of NIS in the old pre-XP days)

(I have also found that the Multi_AV program is extraordinarily useful)
Received on Mon Nov 21 02:34:29 2005