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Originally Posted by tirsales
I guess you are not talking about a desktop firewall - but about a real firewall (or, at least, an IP filter) 
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The best firewall, in the end, is the end-user.
Firewalls can (and will be) turned off, virus scanners will not stay up to date by themselves and will also be turned off, people will still open unknown attachments without looking and install activex controls from websites (naturally, that goes for Windows only). Or open email from people they don't know and link to websites from those emails. And people will still enter usernames and passwords at phishing sites.
I don't think a simple application is the solution. You'll need several. And even then you aren't completely safe.
And I agree with this:
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A well configured system does not need a desktop firewall,
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but I'd like to add to that:
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a stupid user does not profit from it.
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The first part is to educate the user how to use the internet safely (we managed with my mother, so it should be possible!)