Re: more than 1 firewall and/or antivirus

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Yikes...

One good program and and common sense will do just fine. Running multiple
AV and Firewall programs sounds like a huge pain in the ***. Remember that
each of these things takes up computer resources. Also if you need to
configure an online service to pass through your router and firewalls there
is much more work if you have multiple instances.

Another important thing to keep in mind is running multiple AV programs
could be counterproductive. These programs are powerful and could possibly
conflict with each other.

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"Chico" <Chico@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> are there any advantages/disadvantages to running more than 1 firewall
> and/or
> antivirus on you XP at the same time. I know that a lot of serious
> computer
> users will have several (often 4 or more) anti spyware programs on their
> machine at once, but i've heard that you shouldn't run more than 1
> antivirus
> and/or firewall.
>
> Also, as an aside, how good is Microsoft's firewall? I've heard their
> antispyware program is a sieve.


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