Two Firewalls

[Frank Jr.]

I know this was addressed and I apologize but I can't remember. I have a firewall provided by internet security through bellsouth. In addition I have windows firewall. Should I run both or which one. I apologize again but I could not find it through the search engine.

 

[charper1]

When you say Internet Security (provided by BellSouth) they provided you with a full edition of Norton's Internet Security w/ Anti Virus? If so, kill the windows firewall. If not, can you show us what you have?

 

[Frank Jr.]

When you say Internet Security (provided by BellSouth) they provided you with a full edition of Norton's Internet Security w/ Anti Virus? If so, kill the windows firewall. If not, can you show us what you have?

You got it bellsouth full Internet security. Thanks and again I am sorry for the redundancy.

 

[charper1]

Oh not a problem, better safe than sorry right?

 

[Frank Jr.]

Oh not a problem, better safe than sorry right?

Thanks Guy.

 

[mastermesh]

Use both IF it doesn't eat too much ram... On older machines, I used to use windows firewall + zonealarm, and that just ate way too much ram. Newer machines should be fine though.

 

[rockymtnhigh]

Maybe I am putting things at risk, but I only run the hardware firewall on the Linksys Broadband Firewall Router with VPN. In two years, I have never had a problem, and its one less piece of software slowing down my machine. And I had an earlier Linksys router for several years prior to that.

If you have a router like this, isn't the software just overkill?

 

[jokeworm]

If you have a router like this, isn't the software just overkill?

I think so .... as long as you are not stupid about what pages you visit and what you download .. a router is pretty much all you need for a firewall.

For the average day to day "email and a few websites" user .. a firewall is a must... but anti virus/spyware is far more important in my opinion.

 

[Bogy]

I only use the Windows firewall anymore, plus the Linksys firewall. I also use the McAfee SiteAdvisor plugin with Firefox. Handy when doing a Google search to know which sites to avoid. Somewhat going along with jokeworm, I also run CCleaner on a regular basis. Even if you have your browser set up to not accept cookies, you are still going to get them, some sites insist you take them to use the site. You have the choice of either not going to the site, or accepting the cookie. However, there is no reason to keep the cookie. CCleaner will get rid of them. I run other spyware programs every once in a while just to check, and I used to run several different ones because none of them seemed to catch everything. However, since I started using CCleaner the rest of them seldom find anything.

 

[superray]

go to grc.com try shieldsup to see how secure any firewall and router is.free no spyware

 

[kokomogator]

MP3 & Napster to Go sub

I just purchased a Sansa Connect MP3 player and am having an issue loading music files. Not a tech genius so not sure how to fix this, it may be a firewall issue. I loaded most of my Windows Media files to the player with no problem but later when I tried to add files from Napster (it finds and recognizes the player) I kept getting a “The I/O operation was aborted because of a thread exit or an application request” error. I was logged in at the time to my companies VPN. This morning I logged on to Napster again and tried to load some of the songs again and they loaded with no issue (I was not logged into VPN).

When I got to work I tried again and got the same error as above so I logged off Napster and was going to add some more songs from my Windows Media (that I downloaded from CD's) and got the error again.

Sorry to drone on but any ideas? Thanks!

 

[Hall]

Maybe I am putting things at risk, but I only run the hardware firewall on the Linksys Broadband Firewall Router with VPN.

Same setup here with machines running XP, Vista, and Win2000. The 2000 machine has *no* firewall and is clean. My machine has XP and since I recently re-formatted it, the built-in firewall probably got turned on and I've changed nothing since. My wife's laptop has Vista and it's built-in firewall. All machines are in good shape.

 

[Hall]

I just purchased a Sansa Connect MP3 player and am having an issue loading music files. Not a tech genius so not sure how to fix this, it may be a firewall issue.

Not related.... The firewall stands between your operating system and the network connection. It doesn't touch, I presume, the USB connection that the Sansa uses.