This is what my guru told me,
"a firewall is always helpful, but if you're running win98 theres pretty much nothing to hack.
where it comes in handy, is if you run a trojan. A firewall makes it a lot harder to use the trojan effectively....
or run any servers like a webserver or something. essentially windows just sits there, until you put something up someone can exploit"
I don't even use MSIE or that Outlook. I wonder if ICQ has any weakness...
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