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Questions on firewall and antivirus apps
Questions on firewall and antivirus apps I am new to win 7 and trying to climb the learning curve.
I have a new laptop with built in wireless lan and am using a Netgear wireless router at home with Comcast as my internt provider.
I looked to see my security settings on the laptop I was surprised that the Windows firewall was off as was the network firewall.
When I turned the Windows firewall on I was unable to access my internet browser Firefox or get my GMail.
Q. Should I turn off the firewall inasmuch as I have a router protecting the laptop at home and only turn it and the public network firewall on it and when I use it at a hotspot?
Also there was also a notation that having multiple antivirus applications running would slow down windows.
I have initially installed Avast and thought that it was my only antivirus app but I saw in Security that Windows Defender was running as well.
Win XP cautioned against having more than one antivirus app running as major conflicts/problems could arise.
Q. Is Win 7 different in the sense that multiple antivirus apps will only cause slowdowns and not conflicts? What are the pros and cons for having Windows Defender and Avast running concurrently?
TIA, Mary