SP2 Firewall

[Bad Head]

Can the MS Firewall included with XP SP2 be run with a third party Firewall?
I use McAfee Firewall v4.02. Security Centre warns of conflicts if two or
more Firewalls run together.

Thanks

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BadHead
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OS: Windows XP Professional SP2
MOBO: Gigabyte GA7VT600 1394
CPU: AMD3000+
RAM: 1024MB PCI3200
GRAPHICS: ATI Radeon 9800Pro

 

[Joshua Heslinga]

Yes, but.

Windows Firewall will run at the same time as at least
some 3rd party firewalls (Norton Personal Firewall 2004,
in my case), but you really don't want to do this. It
will make troubleshooting absolute hell, and it doesn't
make you any safer if McAfee includes all the features of
Windows Firewall.

My advice is to turn Windows Firewall off if you're happy
with McAfee and it works well with SP2.

 

[ned]

i'm assuming that windows new firewall is still only one
way . hack hack ,,spyware whats out ,no problem.
usually turn xp firewall off and let a real firewall do
it's job.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

Can the MS Firewall included with XP SP2 be run with a third
party
Firewall? I use McAfee Firewall v4.02. Security Centre warns of
conflicts if two or more Firewalls run together.

You'll find those with different points on view on this. Here's
mine: don't do it. You achieve no extra protection, you incur the
extra overhead of running two firewalls, and you run the risk
(probably small, but not zero) of conflicts between them.

Run just the better firewall, and disable the Windows firewall.

 

[root]

In


You'll find those with different points on view on this. Here's
mine: don't do it. You achieve no extra protection, you incur the
extra overhead of running two firewalls, and you run the risk
(probably small, but not zero) of conflicts between them.

Run just the better firewall, and disable the Windows firewall.

Nope, the better firewall is the MS firewall intrinsic to SP2.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

Nope, the better firewall is the MS firewall intrinsic to SP2.

Nonsense!