too many firewalls?

[seaweed1317]

While installing Norton 2005, it advised me to disable Windows XP firewall,
which I do not want to do. Having being bombarded with spyware, I want all
the protection I can get. I have a firewall with my networking plus the XP,
yet I have been told on other forums that you can have too many & to always
disable XP's. I have never had a conflict with mine & I understand that
networking always has a firewall, so there would be a whole lot of people
disabling this feature. Any help appreciated

 

[Rush]

While installing Norton 2005, it advised me to disable Windows XP firewall,
which I do not want to do. Having being bombarded with spyware, I want all
the protection I can get. I have a firewall with my networking plus the XP,
yet I have been told on other forums that you can have too many & to always
disable XP's. I have never had a conflict with mine & I understand that
networking always has a firewall, so there would be a whole lot of people
disabling this feature. Any help appreciated

I would say you can't really have to many firewalls. Ok, 36 of them on one
computer might be excessive.

If you are installing Norton Internet Securities, then you should be
alright to leave the Win XP firewall in place as long as there are no
conflicts. Though, turning it off should not have a negative effect
either, as long as NIS is properly configured.

Many people run 2 or 3 firewalls and are not even aware of it.
For example, one at the router, Windows XP firewall, then they install an
additional firewall.

Rush
http://www.bythedrop.com

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Which Norton 2005? AntiVirus? SystemWorks?? Internet Security?

If you are using Internet Security, then it is safe to turn off Windows XP
Sp2 firewall since the N.I.S (Norton Internet Security) will be taking over.
You should only have one software firewall. However, you can always add a
hardware firewall.

 

[seaweed1317]

Norton Anti-Virus......sorry. Forget they have a lot of software.

 

[Raymond J. Johnson Jr.]

| On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:04:07 -0500, seaweed1317 wrote:
|
| > While installing Norton 2005, it advised me to disable Windows XP
firewall,
| > which I do not want to do. Having being bombarded with spyware, I want
all
| > the protection I can get. I have a firewall with my networking plus the
XP,
| > yet I have been told on other forums that you can have too many & to
always
| > disable XP's. I have never had a conflict with mine & I understand that
| > networking always has a firewall, so there would be a whole lot of
people
| > disabling this feature. Any help appreciated
|
| I would say you can't really have to many firewalls. Ok, 36 of them on one
| computer might be excessive.
|
| If you are installing Norton Internet Securities, then you should be
| alright to leave the Win XP firewall in place as long as there are no
| conflicts. Though, turning it off should not have a negative effect
| either, as long as NIS is properly configured.

The whole point of the preceding paragraph seems to be that there is no
point in having the XP firewall on if you already have better protection in
place, which is true.
|
| Many people run 2 or 3 firewalls and are not even aware of it.
| For example, one at the router, Windows XP firewall, then they install an
| additional firewall.

Most people, I fear, don't run any firewall at all, or only the XP firewall,
which is inadequate and should be turned off as soon as a two-way software
firewall has been installed.
|
| Rush
| http://www.bythedrop.com
|
|

 

[null]

Norton Anti-Virus......sorry. Forget they have a lot of software.

Your posts are a little confusing. First, you say that Norton 2005 is
telling you to disable WinXP's firewall - this would be normal if Norton
was installing its own firewall.

However, in a later post, when questioned about which Norton product you
have installed, you say it's Norton Antivirus. This is an antivirus
application, not a firewall/antivirus suite. If it is just an antivirus
application, and no firewall included, do not disable WinXP's firewall.

So, which is it?

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[Derek Harvey]

Norton Anti-virus 2005 comes with an Anti-Trojan device. Whether that is
classed as a full firewall I don't know. I run both it and the SP2 Firewall
with little problem, _except_ that if both are ON my ftp downloaded may not
work until _either_ is turned OFF while the download proceeds. Why that
should be is a mystery _to me_.
Derek