I do think it's appropriate for people to be concerned about identity theft, therefore it's not surprising that it has become a topic of interest. One of our biggest efforts has been to really educate consumers about the importance of taking the security of the Internet and their computers seriously.

These wording changes were made for usability reasons.

Since the firewall is the first line of defense against hackers, we wanted to make sure we made our free firewall 64-bit compatible first.

We think the [small-business] opportunity is extremely large, and it's probably one of the most important growing opportunities right now. I think small businesses are the most vulnerable [to] security [problems].

We think it's kind of cool that this thing we work on day-to-day is really relevant to everyday people.

You need to take the basic, logical steps to protect the computer and also the basic parenting steps of working with your kids and supervising them appropriately.

We are very pleased to extend our product line to include firewall protection for 64-bit PCs. A dual-layer firewall is the most essential piece of the security to protect against hackers and their nefarious schemes.

Zone Labs has always been known as the leader in complete Internet security solutions. Yet as hackers get more savvy and the PC becomes a commodity worth monetary value on the black market, consumers must also use care as they surf the 'Net. Armed with the right information, people can defend the integrity of the Internet and defeat those who would exploit it for criminal purposes.

Outbound protection requires a fairly high level of sophistication to engage, and reports indicate that Microsoft expects that functionality to be used by IT professionals in a business networking environment.