[ajglass]

Both ZoneAlarm 6.0 and the MS OneCare (beta) firewalls are active on my machine. Should I turn one off or let them both run?

Thanks.

 

[Stu_computer]

Let them both run. The m$ one is a beta (in developement) so it's unproven as to how well it protects a system.

What do you think of it so far?

 

[keymaker]

hmm....zonealarm is good enough but it wont hurt to run two. you can run the other one and see how it works out.

 

[tgo]

I have always wondered how two firewalls on the same level worked. I even asked some of hte network admin guys at work and they didnt seem quite sure. If you get past a hole in firewall A is it possibly for firewall B to pick it up? how do the firewalls know which is to handle what packets?

it just seems like there is alot of room for collisions and errors.

To try and figure this out long ago I ran zone alarm and some other firewall at the same time and zone alarm seemed to pick everyhting up first such as when somehting would access the internet and when i had a friend nmap me zone alarm seemed to block most of the requests.

So maybe one of you network guys could clear up how this works.

 

[Stu_computer]

Depends on how the software integrates into the system...

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/firewall1.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320855