too many firewalls?

[MakeYourslf2012]

hey guys,

im using the "hardware" firewall that came with my mobo (Asus A8N-SLI) and im also using the Seagate personal firewall that i download as soon as i got the PC up.

i have heard that you should only use one firewall and i've also heard that you should use at least two firewalls. which one is correct and why?


thanks,
-MakeYourslf2012

[mairving]

Two firewalls is usually overkill.

[RJ]

i have heard that you should only use one firewall and i've also heard that you should use at least two firewalls. which one is correct and why?

Neither is correct. You can use more than one firewall, but you don't have to. I personally also use a hardware firewall and a software firewall, simply because with the software firewall I can control what programs may access the internet and which ones not. You can't do that with a hardware firewall.

RJ

[Force Flow]

I was using 2 firewalls a while back because the free stuff didn't handle everything I wanted it to. Now, I'm down to just using kerio. ZA 4.5 and sygate seemed to corrupt the winsock or TCP/IP stack on every one of my personal machines, so I'm not sure what's going on there So, I ditched them for kerio, and it's actually working much better than either of those firewalls.