Hm. Question.

[conuly]

Are some firewalls better than others? What's the best free one? I use two different anti-virus programs (not at the same time). Is it wise to also have two firewalls running, or is that just overkill? Why am I posting in the middle of the night, again?

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[rachelkachel]

Someone told me I didn't need Zonealarm anymore once I had the Windows firewall (with Service Pack 2) and I gratefully uninstalled it because it was questioning every component of every program. Now my school is offering some other firewall that I haven't bothered to install yet because it looks complicated. :P Bad Rachel, but meh. I did that scan someone on NC posted earlier, and it turned up nothing, but that doesn't really tell me about my personal firewall - I assume there's one on the network here at home.

In summary, I don't know much; ZoneAlarm is good; as said above, two firewalls together won't work.