DONOT run two firewalls. Two firewalls can conflict and cause problems. You are better off with the Norton firewall as it has more features and gets updated more frequenctly. If you have XP the built in firewall is an incoming only, where the Norton is both incoming and outgoing.
Norton is detecting the defender and firewall are on and automatically disabling them since both functions are built into Norton.
Ok thanks. How does running two firewalls cause problems? I have been running two firewalls for two years now and I have never had a conflict. I am using Windows Vista Ultimate. I don't know why Norton didn't used to do this before I reformatted my computer and now it does.
If two programs are trying to do the same task and access the same data at the same time there can be conflicts. Everything I read on the internet, and on this forum, about this says to not run two firewalls at the same time. If you have done this for two years and did not have a problem I would say you are lucky.
As said, dont run 2, as you can see, you have problems, Norton usually warns you or tells you it will disable any other firewall that is running, as it knows it can cause conflicts. I found windows defender to be mediocore in what it found and protected from vs other free utilities (spyware sweeper or spybot search and destroy)
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DONOT run two firewalls. Two firewalls can conflict and cause problems. You are better off with the Norton firewall as it has more features and gets updated more frequenctly. If you have XP the built in firewall is an incoming only, where the Norton is both incoming and outgoing.
Norton is detecting the defender and firewall are on and automatically disabling them since both functions are built into Norton.
theelitetechnic
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April 14th, 2009 22:00
Ok thanks. How does running two firewalls cause problems? I have been running two firewalls for two years now and I have never had a conflict. I am using Windows Vista Ultimate. I don't know why Norton didn't used to do this before I reformatted my computer and now it does.
fireberd
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April 15th, 2009 04:00
If two programs are trying to do the same task and access the same data at the same time there can be conflicts. Everything I read on the internet, and on this forum, about this says to not run two firewalls at the same time. If you have done this for two years and did not have a problem I would say you are lucky.
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April 29th, 2009 15:00