Because he's right. Unless you buy the pro version, which is slightly better. But then again, software firewalls will always be inferior to hardware firewalls. If your only option is software, however, I suggest Tiny personal firewall.
IE? Who uses that anymore? :laugh:
Go download FireFox. Now.EDIT: looks like Tiny took the free version off their website, and googling for it didn't produce anything. If anybody wants to try it out, PM me. The installer is about 2 megs.