Symantec's Norton Personal Firewall 2005 keeps personal data in and hackers out. Right out of the box, it makes your PC invisible on the Internet so that hackers cant find it. The programs intelligent intrusion prevention technology blocks suspicious Internet traffic. And easy-to-use privacy controls prevent personal information from being sent out without your information blocking now lets you send personal data to sites you trust while protecting you from sending it to sites you dont. Automatically turns the firewall back on after a set period of time if you need to turn it off temporarily. Hides your PC on the Internet so that hackers cant find it. Intrusion prevention technology automatically blocks suspicious incoming traffic. Norton Privacy Control prevents data from being sent without your knowledge in email, instant messages, Microsoft® Office attachments, and Web forms. Program Control only allows authorized programs to connect to the Internet. A Web assistant lets you block ads and access other program options from Microsoft® Internet Explorer. LiveUpdate automatically checks for new protection updates when youre online. Twelve months of protection updates included with purchase of Norton Personal Firewall 2005; annual subscriptions available for subsequent updates.