two firewalls?

[James]

Is it possible to run two firewalls (i.e. Norton's and Zone Alarm) at the
same time? And what about the inbuilt XP firewall and Norton running
concurrently?

 

[Chris Lanier]

Just run one firewall. Forget the XP one, ZoneAlarm or the best software
firewall. the best thing you can do is buy a hardware router/firewall.

 

[Nicholas]

Only use one firewall at a time. You'll have conflicts and
other connection issues if you enable more than one firewall.
Norton has one of the best firewall programs.

--
Nicholas

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| Is it possible to run two firewalls (i.e. Norton's and Zone Alarm) at the
| same time? And what about the inbuilt XP firewall and Norton running
| concurrently?
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[**{Steven}**]

I have fun as many as three at one time without problems, but that was
before I really knew how to configure one to do the job properly. You only
need one software firewall. For really good protection, get a
router/firewall which is hardware and much better than just a software
firewall.

 

[Frank]

I actually run two firewalls with no problem (zone alarm and the one built
into XP). The reason I run two firewalls is because of windows xp messenger
4.7. In order to do video conferencing half the UDP ports must be open in
zone alarm which I don't like. So I run windows xp firewall to block these
ports. Messenger works with the XP firewall to open and close the messenger
ports when needed because it is UPnP compliant.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Yes, and often it is desirable to do so to complement shortcomings in the
other f/w.
For example, firewalls often use different technologies as follows:
ZA free is only an application gate re: outbound control (IMO the weakest
type of f/w).

That is an incorrect statement that casts doubt on all the rest, however
authoritative it may appear. ZA free does not provide the individual
control of ports that Pro does, but on its High security setting of the
Firewall blocks all incoming ports not associated with an authorised
program, and passes Steve Gibson's Stealth test

 

[CZ]

Alex:

BTW, good to see that you are back.