Re: Do I need two firewalls?

Don't believe running two firewalls is a good choice. Besides, the way
they hook/intercept traffic the 1st would do the Lion's Share of packet
monitoring/filtering and the 2nd would repeat the same actions. Guess
it wouldn't hurt anything, but increases the chances of causing the PC
to malfunction.

"Millybags" <steve.milward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uGPQZFIbGHA.4060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

I have Norton Internet Security 2006 running on my three machine LAN.
Each
machine sits behind a wireless router (Linksys WRT54GS) which has a SPI
firewall. My question is - do I need the Norton Firewall as well as the
SPI
firewall?

Thanks for any help.
Steve






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