Firewall hardware

[eMistik]

I have been having problems at my company where spyware and spam is dragging our systems down. I was going to install basic ad-aware and zone alarm to each computer but decided agaisnt that, i rather set the setting myself rather then have my marketing guys worry about that sorta thing.

What I have decided to do was to maybe purchase some hardware to prevent these attacks and/or "break-ins". I have narrowed my selection down to two firewall companies one preimer company ...sonicwall and another that i have done some research on and seem to be popular was barracuda firewall. has anyone used these before or have any other firewall suggestions?

P.S. I hope this was the right forum to post this kind of question at

[carguy84]

We use sonicwalls at our company and our client sites and have been happy with them. We use them as firewalls and also to manage anti-virus and anti-spyware. It's nice being able to manage it all in one place.

For SPAM, we use a 3rd party vendor(Postini) so those emails never hit our email server. All email gets routed through them first.

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