Mulitple Firewalls, AV ?

[redbaron_snoopy]

Is it possible, necessary or good to have 2 firewalls on a home PC ?
I've NIS and I am also *thinking* of using Sygate.

Likewise for AV, I'll also *thinking* of adding AVG or AVAST!

Advice appreciated

[Detox]

It is recommended not to use two software firewalls at once on a PC. The conflict/s could be devastating.

A hardware firewall combined with a software firewall, on the other hand, isn't bad at all.

[BlueZannetti]

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As long as you set up the two AVs so that they are not performing the same functions at the same time, you're alright. That means, if you have the real-time monitor of one (Program A) on, the real-time monitor of Program B should be off. If you go this route - just be careful during the install phase since you may come up with a conflicting configuration after install/reboot. First figure out how you'll configure things, install the first program and basically disable it, then install the second one - you'll typically have reboots between installs - after the final install reboot, configure both to your desires.

You can have two AV's since the granularity of functions (realtime monitor, e-mail scanning, demand or scheduled scanning, etc.) is such that you CAN generally turn-off the overlapping and conflicting functions. You can't do this with software firewalls since they really just have one function which is either there or not.

Blue

[Dazed_and_Confused]

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Detox - True. :D And If your using broadband, having both are a must.