theReal
3rd September 2004, 11:28
I wanted to have both Firewalls running on this computer, WinXP SP2 Firewall and Zonealarm 5.1 (the computer doesn't use a router, so there's no hardware firewall).
My thought was if one of the firewalls has any security holes, then the other won't have the same and make up for it.
Now something very strange happens: I can activate the WinXP firewall, but every time I reboot it's deactivated again. That seems weird because I would expect Windows to complain about that - but it just deactivates its own firewall like it was communicating with Zonealarm, saying "you're the better firewall anyways, so I'm deactivating"
Doesn't seem like a typical Microsoft behaviour, does it??
My thought was if one of the firewalls has any security holes, then the other won't have the same and make up for it.
Now something very strange happens: I can activate the WinXP firewall, but every time I reboot it's deactivated again. That seems weird because I would expect Windows to complain about that - but it just deactivates its own firewall like it was communicating with Zonealarm, saying "you're the better firewall anyways, so I'm deactivating"
Doesn't seem like a typical Microsoft behaviour, does it??