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Author Topic: Is it required to disable Windows Firewall if using a 3rd. party firewall?  (Read 992 times)

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Offline razz

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Is it required to disable Windows Firewall if using a 3rd. party firewall?
« on: August 08, 2009, 09:21:54 PM »
Within the documentation for the Windows Firewall, it states that it should be disabled if using another software firewall.  But some article that I read said you can run both with no problem.

What information is correct for running on XP and Vista?

Thank you for your time.
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Offline IH8U

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Re: Is it required to disable Windows Firewall if using a 3rd. party firewall?
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2009, 10:27:10 PM »
It's not required. It would be pointless though to have 2 firewalls in use. Almost any 3rd party firewall is better than the Windows firewall. If you're using a third party firewall then disable Windows firewall to avoid any issues that may arise such as loss of connection to the Internet.
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Re: Is it required to disable Windows Firewall if using a 3rd. party firewall?
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2009, 05:53:33 AM »
Disable it.

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Re: Is it required to disable Windows Firewall if using a 3rd. party firewall?
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2009, 07:54:35 AM »
No point in having two software firewalls on the same system. If one does not do the job you are looking for... find a different one. :)
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Offline razz

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Re: Is it required to disable Windows Firewall if using a 3rd. party firewall?
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2009, 12:48:09 PM »
Thank you all.  I will disable Windows firewall.
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Offline aqua

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Re: Is it required to disable Windows Firewall if using a 3rd. party firewall?
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2009, 08:32:56 PM »
which 3rd party software firewall do you gusy recommend?..
also..i'm behind a hardware firewall,and on some sites is reported that disabling windows firewall will releasea lot of cpu resources,which is good...what do you think?
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Re: Is it required to disable Windows Firewall if using a 3rd. party firewall?
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2009, 08:54:30 PM »
btw...have you guys used this little app. "seconfigxp"
well i have a westell 327w.i use a custom setup for inbound and outbound from dslreports
in my hardware-firewall setup...
i just disable windows firewall and run secondfigxp...run test at shieldsup=all stealthed.

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