SP-2 FireWall Auto Activation & McAfee FireWall

[Guest]

I understand that SP-2 will activate MS built-in Firewall when SP-2 is
installed. Since my McAfee FireWall in already installed, will: (1) I have
to deactivate it. (2) Tell SP-2 not to turn on its MS FireWall (3) can both
the McAfee and MS FireWalls live together on my system without conflict ?

 

[Myron J. Mandell]

It has been reported elsewhere that SP2 detects McAfee firewall and refrains
from activating Windows Firewall.
After installing SP2 you should check this, and manually turn off Windows
Firewall if you have a third-party firewall you are happy with.
(I think this behavior is unique to McAfee, which seems to have provided in
a timely fashion all updates needed for SP2.)

Myron

 

[Donald McDaniel]

I understand that SP-2 will activate MS built-in Firewall when SP-2 is
installed. Since my McAfee FireWall in already installed, will: (1) I have
to deactivate it. (2) Tell SP-2 not to turn on its MS FireWall (3) can both
the McAfee and MS FireWalls live together on my system without conflict ?

If I'm not mistaken, installation of SP2 may not disable the currently
installed firewall -- many firewalls have code which keeps other
programs from turning them off. I'm not sure if McAfee's firewall has
this code.

If the currently installed firewall does NOT have code which keeps it
from being turned off, it is possible that Windows Security Center
will disable it, and replace it with an activated Windows Firewall
when SP2 is installed.

Either way, it should not hurt to have your current firewall activated
when you install SP2. That way, you will be protected until the SP2
installer reboots the machine. It is a good idea, however, to
completely disable your antivirus software before you begin the
installation of SP2.

Donald L McDaniel
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[Ken Blake]

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I understand that SP-2 will activate MS built-in Firewall when
SP-2 is
installed. Since my McAfee FireWall in already installed,
will: (1)
I have to deactivate it. (2) Tell SP-2 not to turn on its MS
FireWall (3) can both the McAfee and MS FireWalls live together
on my
system without conflict ?

You'll find those with different points on view on this. Here's
mine: don't run two firewalls. 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.



If WIndows doesn't do it automatically, turn off the WIndows
firewall, and run the better one instead.

 

[Trev]

It has been reported elsewhere that SP2 detects McAfee firewall and
refrains from activating Windows Firewall.
After installing SP2 you should check this, and manually turn off Windows
Firewall if you have a third-party firewall you are happy with.
(I think this behavior is unique to McAfee, which seems to have provided
in a timely fashion all updates needed for SP2.)

Well its not unique As It detected both ZA and AVG checked they where both
upto date and ran them instead of the ms ones

 

[Myron J. Mandell]

That's good news!!

But, I'm pretty sure it won't work with Norton or Sygate. (At least, the
free version of Sygate.)

Myron

 

[Rock]

That's good news!!

But, I'm pretty sure it won't work with Norton or Sygate. (At least, the
free version of Sygate.)

Myron

AFAIK Sygate hasn't released an update yet. Symantec has for 2004 products.