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Firewall/Zone Alarm: Disable Windows Firewall by zach on 08-15-2005 at 05:40 AM
In Zone Alarm, is it better to keep the Windows Firewall on or off?
In Firewall/Advanced it has an option to disable it.
RE: Firewall/Zone Alarm: Disable Windows Firewall by RebelSean on 08-15-2005 at 11:44 PM
I would say so because why do you need two firewalls running at the same time? They might cause troubles if you run them both at the same time.
RE: Firewall/Zone Alarm: Disable Windows Firewall by Caboose on 08-16-2005 at 01:11 AM
ZoneAlarm automatically turns off the Windows firewall while it's running, then turns it back on when it's shut down. Having 2 on at the same time is not a good idea.
RE: Firewall/Zone Alarm: Disable Windows Firewall by zach on 08-16-2005 at 05:19 AM
Well my brother put on three 
and it crashed the computer when I connected to the internet, so now I know why.
Zone Alarm does have the option to keep it on, so I was wondering why.
[offtopic]I just read an article and it said there that BlackICE Defender v2.5 ($39.95) was useless, but ZA passed the security test. This will be an old version, but still if you are using that maybe you should get a better firewall...[/offtopic]