[GEOFF]

I have COMODO firewall installed on my notebook running Vista Home Premium. Should I turn off Windows firewall? Will they conflict with each other? Other threads I searched about this didn't really answer that question.

I also have NOD32 running.
Thanks,
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[Gizzy]

it would be better to turn windows firewall off, it's not usually a good idea to run 2 software firewalls at the same time.

besides comodo firewall is an excellent firewall.

[GEOFF]

Right. I will turn it off.

Just wondering....how about Windows Defender....Is it any good and can it or should it be turned off?
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[petgomon]

I would leave both firewalls running. I have always left the Windows firewall running with another firewall installed with no ill-effects.

[Gizzy]

Originally Posted by petgomon

I would leave both firewalls running. I have always left the Windows firewall running with another firewall installed with no ill-effects.

xp firewall or vista firewall?

vista has a stronger one than xp

Originally Posted by GEOFF

Right. I will turn it off.

Just wondering....how about Windows Defender....Is it any good and can it or should it be turned off?
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it's good to leave on for extra protection but if you have a realtime anti-virus and do regular anti-spyware scans then you can turn it off if you'd like,

[GEOFF]

Well,I had a problem running both firewalls as it turned out. I was losing my internet connection when my notebook woke up from sleep mode and after turning off Windows firewall, the problem seems to have gone away. I was working on this in another Forum:

http://forums.techguy.org/networking...ml#post5474772

However, I ran a scan with Windows defender yesterday and after that left the notebook to go into sleep mode and i lost the internet connection on wakeup so had to reboot to get it back.......so I think maybe Defender interfers sometimes so I may turn it off as NOD32 and COMODO should handle things and I do run a scan weekly.

Still not happy though with the loss of Internet connection sometimes....does not happen on my wife's pc with same Vista Home Premium.
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[Gizzy]

Originally Posted by GEOFF

Well,I had a problem running both firewalls as it turned out. I was losing my internet connection when my notebook woke up from sleep mode and after turning off Windows firewall, the problem seems to have gone away. I was working on this in another Forum:

http://forums.techguy.org/networking...ml#post5474772

However, I ran a scan with Windows defender yesterday and after that left the notebook to go into sleep mode and i lost the internet connection on wakeup so had to reboot to get it back.......so I think maybe Defender interfers sometimes so I may turn it off as NOD32 and COMODO should handle things and I do run a scan weekly.

Still not happy though with the loss of Internet connection sometimes....does not happen on my wife's pc with same Vista Home Premium.
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yes NOD32, Comodo and a weekly scan should be good so you can shut off defender,
you can try what TerryNet said in the other thread and see if it helps,
I don't have vista so I can't really help with your connection problem since I'm not that familiar with vista,
and does your wife have the same hardware too? maybe it's the wireless card?
I hope you can get it solved, Good luck.

[GEOFF]

No, my wife's is a new PC withNorton Internet Security.

I think it is the Firewall, as this started right around the COMODO install and was not a problem earlier........before that I only had Windows Firewall. So far since I turned of Windows Firewall it is connecting fine.......only just after a Defender scan it seems do I have a reconnect problem, so I may turn Defender off.....or as I was advised elsewhere, go back to a restore point just before COMODO wass installed to see if that resolves it.
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