you are the media you consume.
(personally I rely on the firewall built into my wireless router, it's as good as anything you'll find on windows, and if they're going to crack that then they'llblow through anything that your windows desktop can support Windows free softwares only successfull function is the upgrade advertising it bombards you with). Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
I think the lesson here is that unless you know how to analyze internet traffic, you're at high risk for having your computer security compromised.
I'll have to check out the latest and greatest, I guess.