Vista - Firewalls

All,

I have a Linksys WAG200G router which works really well. Complete with a firmware update.
My question is that as the router has a built in firewall and I am using the VISTA Home Professional firewall too - Do I really need both?

I suspect it is a bit silly to have both working, so I would propose to turn off the VISTA firewall?

Would that still give enough protection?
Which is the better and most effective firewall?

What do you guys do?

Cheers

It is good to have a software and a hardware firewall active. I would leave it alone.

Since my router has other computers connect to it, I have the routers firewall on as well as the firewall on all of my other computers. If I inadvertently don't have a computers firewall on, I still have some protection from the routers firewall. So I would leave both firewalls on.
You might want to turn of the routers firewall if you had an internet server you wanted the rest of the world to be able to access. Though there is port forwarding that you can use in the router for that as well.
"Crispy500" <davidcrisp1@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:ep7li%23KjIHA.1944@xxxxxx
All,

I have a Linksys WAG200G router which works really well. Complete with a firmware update.
My question is that as the router has a built in firewall and I am using the VISTA Home Professional firewall too - Do I really need both?

I suspect it is a bit silly to have both working, so I would propose to turn off the VISTA firewall?

Would that still give enough protection?
Which is the better and most effective firewall?

What do you guys do?

Cheers

Keep both on for added protection - I do.

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"Crispy500" <davidcrisp1@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ep7li%23KjIHA.1944@xxxxxx
All,

I have a Linksys WAG200G router which works really well. Complete with a
firmware update.
My question is that as the router has a built in firewall and I am using the
VISTA Home Professional firewall too - Do I really need both?

I suspect it is a bit silly to have both working, so I would propose to turn
off the VISTA firewall?

Would that still give enough protection?
Which is the better and most effective firewall?

What do you guys do?

Cheers