Can anyone refer me a good firewall which is fast and without any other utilities like anti-spam, anti-spyware... I am ready to pay any price for that... i.e. I'm not worried about the high cost... again I need a basic firewall which gives maximum performance still maintaining high security and without any other features because I already use a good anti-virus, a good anti-spyware... so I don't need them to be integrated into the firewall...

Zone Alarm is a very good firewall. Others may have their preferences.

Buy a router/gateway and use a hardware firewall - fastest way possible to protect yourself.

Zone Alarm is very good if configured it to your own specific requirements. It displays alerts about every event but can be difficult for a novice to understand.
However if you just need standard security and you're a home user windows XP or above have perfectly good firewalls inbuilt that provide adaquate home user protection.
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You can use one of them windows firewall, Zone alarm free firewall, ESET smart security and comodo firewall pro. etc.
These are firewalls which can able to protect the windows mad block the spywares.

I would go with the paid version of Online Armor.

I agree with James. Comodo Firewall

The fewer rules and the fewer the connections the faster the firewall