Hard Firewalls

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This is not advised as they may clash; Norton AntiVirus 2008 has an excellent Firewall and really is the only Firewall you need.

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I also use it that way. I believe it’s the best security

Hope you don’t mind me chiming in. But if you use a hard firewall/router, wouldn’t that be the dominate one? Someone told me once that there should never be any unsolicited incoming to your comp. Wouldn’t a hard firewall/router just keep everything out?


NY1986 wrote:
Hope you don't mind me chiming in. But if you use a hard firewall/router, wouldn't that be the dominate one? Someone told me once that there should never be any unsolicited incoming to your comp. Wouldn't a hard firewall/router just keep everything out?

Norton's Firewall is one of the - if not the - best Firewalls around.  You are Fully Secure with Norton Firewall, whereas the Router Firewall may have wholes, i.e. it might not Block everything it should, e.g. you might have a Rule to Block something and the Firewall may not Detect Activity on that Port and thus, it will not Block.  I would strongly suggest just using Norton's Firewall as it is excellent; if you use two Firewalls, then there will be clashes which reduces your Protection.

I understand. Just trying to learn. What if you set a hard firewall to stop all incoming unsolicited traffice?

continuing with the what if line of thinking- what if you get a DSL provider that includes a hard firewall? How doe sthat mess things up? I may be changeing my DSL provider and I know many have hard firewalls

I don't want to start a similar post, so i thought maybe my question can be answered here

 

If your IP provider has a hard/router firewall, how does that mess up your Norton NAV2008 inbound firewall?


NY1986 wrote:

I don't want to start a similar post, so i thought maybe my question can be answered here

 

If your IP provider has a hard/router firewall, how does that mess up your Norton NAV2008 inbound firewall?


 

N.AV will Protect you; N.AV Firewall is one of the best around - if not the best.  There is no need to worry.  :-)

Use them both and make sure you stealth port 113 on the router firewall.

Run Shields UP at www.grc.com for a good " basic" test of your firewalls.


PaulS wrote:

Use them both and make sure you stealth port 113 on the router firewall.

Run Shields UP at www.grc.com for a good " basic" test of your firewalls.


 

With regard to this, I would advise not use both as Norton's Firewall is enough to Protect you, aloong with I.P., e.t.c, and there will be clashes which can reduce your Firewall Protection.

I respectfully disagree with Floating_Red

How so, Paul?