Zone Alarm free edition

Uno Hoo! · External Since: Jun 10, 2004 Posts: 9

Just installed Zone Alarm on my PC. Should I leave the Windows XP firewall
enabled for double protection or could there be conflicts? (Don't seem to be
any problems so far after two days)

Kev

Uno Hoo! · External Since: Jun 10, 2004 Posts: 9

"Wattsville Blues" wrote in message

> Lars-Erik Østerud wrote:
>> Uno Hoo! skrev:
>>
>>
>>>Just installed Zone Alarm on my PC. Should I leave the Windows XP
>>>firewall enabled for double protection or could there be conflicts?
>>>(Don't seem to be
>>
>>
>> Just a waste of CPU and RAM. ZA does everything that the MS firewall.
>>
>
> Uh, ok, but ZA does considerably more. If you have ZA running, there's no
> need to have the Windows Firewall running too.

Much as I thought. I'll disable it!

Kev

skydiver · External Since: Jan 31, 2005 Posts: 22

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Martin · External Since: Feb 01, 2005 Posts: 5

"skydiver" wrote in message

> "Uno Hoo!" wrote in message
>
>>
>> "Wattsville Blues" wrote in message
>>
>>> Lars-Erik Østerud wrote:
>>>> Uno Hoo! skrev:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Just installed Zone Alarm on my PC. Should I leave the Windows XP
>>>>>firewall enabled for double protection or could there be conflicts?
>>>>>(Don't seem to be
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just a waste of CPU and RAM. ZA does everything that the MS firewall.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Uh, ok, but ZA does considerably more. If you have ZA running, there's
>>> no need to have the Windows Firewall running too.
>>
>> Much as I thought. I'll disable it!
>>
>> Kev
>
> Just don't forget to turn on ZA before you connect to the internet! I
> sometimes disable ZA when I'm offline, then may forget to turn it on again
> before connecting. For that reason I leave the Windows firewall turned on
> all of the time and haven't noticed any negatives except... I must enter
> my FTP client as an exception or it won't work.
> --
> skydiver
> (this space intentionally left blank)
> P.S. If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving's not for you.

Why disable it? Why not leave it on, especially as something could still
try to connect to the internet even when you're not logged on! Seems
strange, you are disabling one FW and leaving another enabled, when you
could just use ZA and turn the Windows FW off totally....