firewall

confusedinmisery wrote:
> Is it ok to run the windows firewall and the mcafee firewall at the same
> time?,



WinXP's built-in firewall is _not_ designed to act as a compliment
to 3rd party firewalls, and Microsoft actually recommends disabling it
if you use another software firewall, although a great many people have
reported no problems using ICF in conjunction with other products. My
position is that running two or more software firewalls simultaneously
is generally unnecessary and can _sometimes_ cause conflicts, possibly
negating the protection of both. In any event, having two firewalls
running simultaneously is most certainly an unnecessary drain on system
resources.


> and can I run the windows defender program safely with other
> antivirus programs?


Since Windows Defender isn't an anti-virus application (it's
anti-ad/spyware), it shouldn't conflict with any anti-virus application.


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