Re: XP SP2's Firewall

From: Ken Blake (kblake_at_this.is.an.invalid.domain)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:37:24 -0700

In news:uzKInkjhEHA.4092@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl,
JMAX <nospan@nospam.com> typed:

> If you install Zone Alarm Pro on XP do you have to disable the
> XP
> firewall? If they can't run side by side how do you disable
> XPs?

Have to? No, but my view is that you shouldn't run two firewalls.
You achieve no extra protection, you incur the extra overhead of
running two firewalls, and you run the risk (probably small, but
not zero) of conflicts between them. 

-- 
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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