Using Firewalls and Antivirus at the same time
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Date: 02/11/04
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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:41:42 -0800
Having multiple firewalls can actually counteract each
other and cause problems letting things in, choose one and
go with it.
Use one antivirus. Systems like nortons if you use norton
internet security then it has the av and firewall and
thats fine.
Also regularly using spybot and adaware that are kept
updated is good.
If you want a hardware firewall you need to install a
router that comes with a firewall, but if you just get a
good antivirus/firewall that you keep regularly updated
that that should be sufficient.
Of course one thing that goes hand in hand with all this
is awareness. Be aware of what your doing on line and what
you are opening or downloading. You can purposefully(yet
unknowingly) download things past your firewall and
software.
Just stay aware/informed/updated and you should be fine.
>-----Original Message-----
>I am trying to fix my problem of getting my computer
>hijacked with Spam, virus and other programs and needed
>some help. As most of you know, I do not like the UI from
>AVG, but the thing does seem to work.
>This is how I have it set up now for what I think will
>stop any problems, let me now what I left out.
>
>Firewall: Zone Alarm Pro, McAfee Personal Firewall Plus,
>Norton NIS,
>
>Anti-Ad's: Spybot, Lavasoft Ad-Adware, McAfee Privacy
>Sevice,
>
>Virus, AVG 6, Sophos, Norman Antvirus, McAfee Virusscan
>Pro, Norton Antivirus, IPE antivirus.
>
>Everything runs ok together, its a little slower on
>startup. What else do I need ? A hardware firewall ? I
>have looked for hardware firewalls and cannot find them.
I
>use dial up. Might change to xp pro, is that firewall
>worth it ?
>
>Regards
>half_pint
>.
>
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