[Tom Seeley]

I'm running Zone Alarm as my firewall right now, and I like it. I've got the MS one disabled.

I'm considering upgrading my AVG Free 7.5 to their new AVG 8.0 Internet Security, which comes with its own firewall. If I do that, should I uninstall ZA and run the complete AVG or should I run both firewalls simultaneously? I think I've heard that's not so smart.

I haven't found out yet if I could disable the firewall part of the AVG 8.0 package, but perhaps that's also an option. If I could, would that make sense or not?

[IMP49]

I think that falls into the same category as trying to run 2 anti-virus programs at the same time, a no-no.

[lunarlander]

AVG 8 also has a free version that comes without the firewall.

[CCjon]

No.Don't ever have two firewalls running at the same time.It will seriously mess up your system.

And reviews of AVG Internet Security's firewall aren't very favourable....

[ferrija1]

Two firewalls may conflict, but the larger reason for not running two simultaneously is that there's really no benefit.