firewall questions?

[jpmartin]

windows defender and avast firewall on at a same time is a good ideas or bad?

i currently set windows defender firewall, and maybe avast firewall is on and it's no conflicted at this point, but i notices that at the forum they said is a not a good idea to set both firewall activate? 

please reply 

[DavidR]

avast isn't a firewall, I wasn't aware that windows defender was a firewall either.

They are both OK together though, as a number of forums members use them.

[jpmartin]

so what you saying is avast pro doesn't come with firewall?

b/c i just builted my own computer with intel core 2 duo E8400 come with windows defender; and my worries is that if i install avast there might be conflict if you have 2 firewall at the same time.

[DavidR]

Neither avast home or pro is or comes with a firewall. There is a firewall in development but that is still some time off.

I suggest you check the windows security center and that will tell you what your firewall is. As I'm of the belief that windows defender isn't a firewall but an anti-spyware, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Defender.

So it appears that you don't have a firewall unless you are using the firewall that comes with windows XP or Vista, but you didn't say what your OS is.

[jpmartin]

i forgot to mention that i'm using windows vista premium 
but do you think is going to have a confliction? that's all that i was wonthering.

[Lisandro]

but do you think is going to have a confliction? that's all that i was wonthering.

avast won't conflict with Windows Defender or Windows Firewall.

[jpmartin]

wow

thanks alot 

[Lisandro]

thanks alot 

You're welcome.

[gery]

avast is not a firewall and it has not for sure a built in firewall in neither versions home or pro and windows deffender is more of an antispyware software and as far as i know it will not conflict with avcast at all.maybe you should start considering installing a firewall as well