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Posted by Ted Zieglar on July 27, 2005, 9:51 am
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It's fine to have both a hardware firewall and a software firewall. The two
perform complementary functions. However, it's definitely not a good idea to
have more than one software firewall installed at a time. Choose one.
BTW, a SP 2-compatible third party firewall automatically turns off Windows
Firewall.
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Ted Zieglar
"You can do it if you try."
> I'm sure this has been asked before...
>
> I have Windows xpsp2 (has a firewall), MS broadband router for a home
> network(has a hardware firewall), Norton IS2005 (has a firewall) and,
> finally, my service provider has given us free security package which also
> has a firewall.
>
> The obvious question is should they all be on? Should they all be off but
> one? Do I benefit from having them all on or does it affect performance?
> Which one should be on? The router firewall seems to be the logical one
to
> keep on but then I keep getting alerts from xp that I don't have a
firewall
> on. Norton keeps telling me that I have another firewall on and do I want
to
> turn it off?
>
> Help!
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