Potetial Outpost Conflicts?

From: Colin Rous (crous@sympatico.ca)
Date: 01/15/03

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From: Colin Rous <crous@sympatico.ca>

    G'day, all,

    I currently run two firewalls (Sygate and Tiny). I wanted to replace one
    with Outpost to see if Outpost is as good as people tell me it is. Agnitum
    warns you not to run more than one firewall, so I disconnected from the
    'net, shut down both my firewalls and started the Outpost install. The
    install process noticed the existence of the other non-running firewalls on
    the sytem and gave me the following message:

    "You will most likely have the following problems if you decide to run more
    then one firewall on your computer:

    - Blue screen fatal errors, system freezing or sudden system reboots.
    - All access will be allowed for every application. Nothing will be blocked.
    - Every application will be blocked and you will be unable to connect to
    any web site.
    - Your computer system will be unable to boot up.
    - Every other error imaginable!"

    First, these claimed potential problems strike me as being somewhat
    over-the-top. Second, I run two AV programs (security in depth, and all
    that), one of which warns of dire consequences from running more than one
    AV program. In fact, I have no problems whatsoever; they don't even trip
    over each other's signature files. Neither do I get any conflicts between
    my current two firewalls or problems from running two. (I pass all GRC,
    Sygate and other tests with either or both.)

    So my question is: Has anyone experimented with running Outpost with
    another firewall? If so, what was your experience? If not, can anyone think
    of anything to justify Agnitum's claims? Is this just a problem of
    Outpost's? (No other firewall I know of issues such a warning.) Or is this
    just a marketing claim to encourage usage of Outpost and only Outpost? (My
    OS, BTW, is 98.)

    Cheers,
    Colin

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