Challie you may think you are unprotected but you are protected "Temporarily" By the Windows Firewall and your routers "Firewall"
You are safe so long as you Don't Hit a Suspect site (Highly possible)
Firewalls for Free and Good ones ...A Tall order?
Would you like a well Known reliable Make?
Which Takes up a Lot of space and is a bit fiddly to Get Used to (Comodo) ....
I Have Made a Topic on the Install and Setup/ running instructions Long winded I grant you, but it covers all the bases.
http://filehippo.com/download_comodo/ They say It has an Antivirus too but I'd still install Avast! regardless which is Free and Does not Clash with Programs
http://filehippo.com/download_avast_antivirus/ (This Updates daily)
NOTE: Needs Registering to get a "Key"(To insert into the settings) and you Get 1 years continous updates
Now if you have Not much drive space For a Firewall Like Comodo There is a Very good one which weighs In at 4 Mbs called
Filseclab Its From China...Don't worry the English is Good
I Only found out about it when SomeBody posted about a dealer Removing Commodo on a Low Powered computer(Had been struggling) and
They had full protection again (Minimal controls)
www.filseclab.com/eng/products/firewall.htm also I did Note that:
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It Has a Lot of Good reports on Cnet which is a popular forum/Download site Rates a 4/5 stars
Here are the feedback reports PS 1 person on the feedback link said it was the
ONLY Firewall that is good for Windows 98SE. Worth a think about
