Running two firewalls?
Just out of curiousity, can I run multiple firewalls same time ie getting "double" security? I'm now using Sygate Personal Pro and was considering something like Outpost Personal Pro 2 or BlackICE Defender v3.5 to add something in my shielding. And no! ZA is not an oPtion
Anyone has any experiences about using fw-combos?
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It is not a good idea to run 2 Firewalls at the sametime, from what I have read anyway...it will cause some conflicts & use alot of resources. It has been said not to even have 2 Firewalls installed...but I have ZA & Sygate installed...I run ZA all the time, than shut it down about 2-3 weeks & run Sygate for a day or two...to keep it updated to my system.
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What's wrong with ZA ? if i may ask.Originally posted by lordpake
And no! ZA is not an oPtion
I've been using ZA pro for quite a while now,no problems so far,blocks everything,closes every port i want to be closed.
Just curious
It f***ed up my system BIG time! Had to reboot in Safe Mode and uninstall it 'coz every time I tried booting after ZA install I got this message that Windows was being shut down to avoid hardware damage!Originally posted by Wobbel
What's wrong with ZA ? if i may ask.
I've been using ZA pro for quite a while now,no problems so far,blocks everything,closes every port i want to be closed.
Just curiousIt is hard to use a fw if your OS doesn't even launch
Besides it effectively cleared my uninstall menu from programs, they are still installed, I just can't uninstall them properly
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Actually, this is one of the best ways to secure your machine. LOL. You won't be affected by anything except the OS itself.Originally posted by lordpake
It is hard to use a fw if your OS doesn't even launch
By the way: it is a wrong thing to think that 2 firewalls double your shields. It probably only gives trouble.
Besides of that, what do you want exactly? A firewall or a policy manager? The last one for instance checks whether application A may connect 1) at all 2) to a specified host 3) on a given port 4) etc. Another example is that it checks whether application B is allowed to open a port and listen to in on your computer, thus 1) opening port x 2) accepting connections from a specified host 3) etc.
A firewall only drops, rejects, forwards, masquerades and allows packages. This has nothing to do with applications, but pure with source and destinationaddress of your IP packages.
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Firewall + policy manager in one package, please
Ok, so it's not worth it to use two fw's.
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Uh, well actually there are two types of firewalls you can use at the same time
1) hardware firewall + software firewall
2) 1 regular firewall+ 1 firewall that only keeps things "in" unless you let them access the internet...
Yo Fister, can you supply little more info on that option number 2?
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BlackIce can be used as an addition to any firewall I think. It's not a firewall but a kind of filter. I'll try to find the article for this.
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I run sygate and xp firewall at the same time.
the only prob i had with ZA is it wasnt very good 4 networked computers.
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http://www.webattack.com/get/outpostpro.shtml
above is a description of a firewall with anti-leak protection...
sorry to double up lord pake, but here is another article on anti-leak or leak proof firewalls....
It keeps all the good stuff in...
http://www.pcflank.com/art24.htm
No prob, Fister!
Thanks for the info and linkx, a little something to keep me busy for a while
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