Windows and avast Firewall ?

[kevbeck]

Under my security center in windows 7, it says that having two firewalls on at the same time can cause conflicts. Is this true? I only have avast and my windows 7 firewall on (avast is the only antivirus prog i have). I turned my windows firewall off and left avast on. Does anyone know if this will lower my protection level or make me more vulnerable to attacks?

[DavidR]

If you have the Avast Internet Security version, that firewall was designed to be compatible with the windows firewall on.

[YoKenny]

It is best to leave the firewall on.

[Hannu]

What about modem (A-Link RR24api+) firewall? What would you recommend (turn on or off?)? I have internet security trial version too.

[DavidR]

That shouldn't be an issue either I believe and I bet that windows doesn't even know it is there ?

If it is a hardware firewall as such in most cases that is inbound protection anyway.

[Hannu]

I will leave it to default settings then. Thanks for the info.

[Pondus]

I think Logos did some investigating in this and found out that on XP you could have winfirewall on but not necesarry on  Vista/win7

[DavidR]

I will leave it to default settings then. Thanks for the info.

I would unless you experience any issues. At the moment the only area that the win7 firewall would cover is IPv6 and that protocol is yet to make a real appearance, so if disabled it wouldn't make a huge difference.