question on using Zone Alerrt firewall and the anti Spy beta version

[David]

does anybody know if i use zone alarm firewall and anti
spy beta program of microsoft does it is taking more
memory or it less protected than to use the microsoft
integral firewall from sp2 with the anti spy of microsoft
because of compatibility beetween microst`s programs?
if some one from microsoft can give me exact answer it
will be great.
my operating system is XP.

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Its recommended you shutdown the built in Windows Firewall that comes with
XP SP2 if you plan using a thirdparty firewall. I have both running on my
systems, but I shutdown ZoneAlarm on startup. Neither has affected my memory
usage in anyway.