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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 2615110" data-attributes="member: 21076">I am going to say it depends on the person.  I tend to only use the LinkSys as my firewall, though on occassion I crank up a software based one too.  That's mainly when I want immediate warning of outgoing connection attempts also.  I do run AV software all the time, but only the second firewall on occassions.Standard practice would dictate that a hardware based firewall (and I include LinkSys in this by nature of NAT) and software based firewall are not a bad combination.  The XP one should be fine as a second layer of protection though for most people.And I agree with the Zone alarm sentiments so far.  It used to be a good tool, but these days it seems I am fixing things it broke for people more than not.</blockquote>