Can McAfee Personal Firewall and Zone Alarm peacefully co-exist ?

On a Windows Me system, is it OK to have McAfee Personal Firewall and
Zone Alarm (free) both running at the same time?

I know they're probably mutually redundant, but if they can peacefully
co-exist, it's easier to leave them both on instead of removing one of
them.

If it turns out that they shouldn't co-exist, which do you recommend
keeping?

Noel
Fri Mar 03 05:31:47 CST 2006

Personally, I'd avoid running either of them! - both are known as resource
hogs (especially in Win9x systems)

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"wylbur37" <wylbur37nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On a Windows Me system, is it OK to have McAfee Personal Firewall and
> Zone Alarm (free) both running at the same time?
>
> I know they're probably mutually redundant, but if they can peacefully
> co-exist, it's easier to leave them both on instead of removing one of
> them.
>
> If it turns out that they shouldn't co-exist, which do you recommend
> keeping?
>

Quilljar
Fri Mar 03 09:05:13 CST 2006

I wouldn't run either McAvee or Norton myself. They both hog your machine
and are not as effective or user friendly as several free AV progs (AVG for
example)

Yrs Quilljar
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Noel
Fri Mar 03 09:56:31 CST 2006


"Quilljar" <wykehill-flightsim@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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>I wouldn't run either McAvee or Norton myself. They both hog your machine
>and are not as effective or user friendly as several free AV progs (AVG for
>example)
>

The question was in respect of Firewalls, not AV's (but I wouldn't run
Norton <anything> anyhow)

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Duane
Fri Mar 03 10:12:34 CST 2006

wylbur37 wrote:
> On a Windows Me system, is it OK to have McAfee Personal Firewall and
> Zone Alarm (free) both running at the same time?
>
> I know they're probably mutually redundant, but if they can peacefully
> co-exist, it's easier to leave them both on instead of removing one of
> them.
>
> If it turns out that they shouldn't co-exist, which do you recommend
> keeping?
>

The only thing that could happen is what they call a double FW situation
that could prevent inbound packets from reaching the computer. I had
that happen to me with having BlackIce and XP's FW active at the same
time, which prevented syslog packets boradcasted to the machine running
Wallwatcher by the router. The packets were being blocked. I disable the
XP FW and the problem was corrected. If you're not experiencing that
kind of situation, then run them both.

Duane :)

JAD
Fri Mar 03 11:10:14 CST 2006


"wylbur37" <wylbur37nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1141374118.769239.143220@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> On a Windows Me system, is it OK to have McAfee Personal Firewall and
> Zone Alarm (free) both running at the same time?
>
> I know they're probably mutually redundant, but if they can peacefully
> co-exist, it's easier to leave them both on instead of removing one of
> them.
>
> If it turns out that they shouldn't co-exist, which do you recommend
> keeping?
>

there is no reason to do this as resources will be reduced greatly. if its a
matter of 'lack of confidence' of one or the other, get sygate 5.6(symantec
hasn't ruined it , YET, but there are no more updates) and be done with it.
Do I think its perfect? No, what is?, but it has a pretty small footprint
compared to those two. 'Tiny FW' is another good choice, which I am trying
out currently.


http://www.tinysoftware.com/home/tiny2?la=EN

http://www.tucows.com/preview/213160

Notan
Fri Mar 03 11:11:21 CST 2006

Quilljar wrote:
>
> I wouldn't run either McAvee or Norton myself. They both hog your machine
> and are not as effective or user friendly as several free AV progs (AVG for
> example)

Huh?

The OP's talking about firewalls... Where did Norton and the subject of AV
programs come from?

It's been suggested that simultaneous firewalls *not* be run.

Notan

webster72n
Fri Mar 03 11:44:10 CST 2006


Good advice.

Harry.


"JAD" <kapasitor@earthcharter.net> wrote in message
news:WL_Nf.20$Ny6.17@fe03.lga...
>
> "wylbur37" <wylbur37nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1141374118.769239.143220@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > On a Windows Me system, is it OK to have McAfee Personal Firewall and
> > Zone Alarm (free) both running at the same time?
> >
> > I know they're probably mutually redundant, but if they can peacefully
> > co-exist, it's easier to leave them both on instead of removing one of
> > them.
> >
> > If it turns out that they shouldn't co-exist, which do you recommend
> > keeping?
> >
>
> there is no reason to do this as resources will be reduced greatly. if its
a
> matter of 'lack of confidence' of one or the other, get sygate
5.6(symantec
> hasn't ruined it , YET, but there are no more updates) and be done with
it.
> Do I think its perfect? No, what is?, but it has a pretty small
footprint
> compared to those two. 'Tiny FW' is another good choice, which I am
trying
> out currently.
>
>
> http://www.tinysoftware.com/home/tiny2?la=EN
>
> http://www.tucows.com/preview/213160
>
>

Notan
Fri Mar 03 11:47:00 CST 2006

JAD wrote:
>
> "wylbur37" <wylbur37nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1141374118.769239.143220@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > On a Windows Me system, is it OK to have McAfee Personal Firewall and
> > Zone Alarm (free) both running at the same time?
> >
> > I know they're probably mutually redundant, but if they can peacefully
> > co-exist, it's easier to leave them both on instead of removing one of
> > them.
> >
> > If it turns out that they shouldn't co-exist, which do you recommend
> > keeping?
> >
>
> there is no reason to do this as resources will be reduced greatly. if its a
> matter of 'lack of confidence' of one or the other, get sygate 5.6(symantec
> hasn't ruined it , YET, but there are no more updates) and be done with it.
> Do I think its perfect? No, what is?, but it has a pretty small footprint
> compared to those two. 'Tiny FW' is another good choice, which I am trying
> out currently.
>
> http://www.tinysoftware.com/home/tiny2?la=EN
>
> http://www.tucows.com/preview/213160

Have a look at Kerio Personal Firewall (recently purchased by Sunbelt):

http://www.sunbelt-software.com/kerio.cfm

Great firewall, great price!

Notan