Kerio (Free) Version for Home Users is widely known for its robust incoming and outgoing protection, while providing perhaps one of the most user-friendly, easy to configure and manage interfaces of offerings in its field (Firewall / Internet Security Apps).

Here's a very good, thorough & informative review of its features and functions:
http://www.melbpc.org.au/pcupdate/2304/2304article10.htm

 Basic Backup Tips Here
There is a wide variety of methods, mechanisms, and modalities by which you can back up and safely & securely store your personal or business data.  Locally, remotely, automatically, manually, and on and on, but one thing remains consistent across them all - no matter how, when, and to where/what you choose to do it, there are going to be a significant number of potential failure points that can plague your backup routine. We'll discuss those possible failures or insufficiencies - and how to avoid them - next.

Theft/Loss Insurance . . Despite all the various strategies we have discussed here recently regarding keeping your computer running cleanly, safely, & securely protected against a virtual panoply of existential threats, security breaches and malicious - often stealthy - intrusions, like the war that many governments constantly wage on terror, in order to remain free from damage or loss, we must be successful in defending against all the threats 100% of the time, but all the hackers, phishers, attackers need in order to be able to claim a significant degree of success in perpetrating their attacks against us can be as little as a single successful operation.

But while we may or may not always succeed in perfectly protecting our precious, critical data and media from being soft targets for those who would lay claim to them (not to mention the plethora of other, technological or physical catastrophes that can occur on their own), we can at least take what can be considered essentially foolproof measures to avoid ending up having lost valuable, irreplaceable data due to the damage inflicted by viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits, hacktools, cyber-thieves, etc. - and this is by planning and implementing a conscientious and comprehensive program of backing up all the files, records, photos, music, videos, what have you, that we feel we cannot - or would prefer not to - live without. And those measures consist, in large part, of ensuring that our important data is regularly backed up to a second, inaccessible (to the malefactors) location.

So backing up our data - exactly what that data comprises as well as precisely what we can do to ensure that we do it properly, reliably, and thoroughly - is what we are going to discuss next.  

Some of my Basic Backup Tips Here.