too many firewalls

[davidthechristianguy]

I think it would be great if someone would make a program that would moniter all of the firewalls that one has going. I have AT&T broadband modem and am running McAfee. I think one of them keeps bouncing me off line. It would be great if I could tell which one and adjust accordingly. Also, be able to monitor all the virus protection systems and be told if one is properly covered or not.

Any thoughts of this?

Davidthechristianguy

[Ritho]

I don't get the "too many firewalls" part. You mention McAfee. What other firewall do you have? We don't support McAfee here and would suggest switching to a different Antivirus and Firewall. You can use our security wizard to pick what you need. http://dev.urltrim.com/secwiz

As for monitoring a firewall, well they do that themselves. Check out the log files. Logging may need to be inabled, but even hardware firewalls such as are found in a router have logging capabilities.

[Anupam]

Welcome to the forum David.

The topic of the thread is quite misleading. A modem is not considered as a firewall. It is simply a device to connect to the internet.

So, you have only one firewall, that came with McAfee. I hope you have the Windows default firewall turned off. Its not advisable to use two firewalls, unless one is a hardware one(router), and the other a software one.

As this is a freeware forum, we won't any help regarding McAfee, which is a commercial suite. But, if you want to locate the cause of internet connection loss, you can turn off the McAfee firewall, and see if the connection still bounces off. Though I don't think a firewall maybe responsible for connection loss. Most likely, its your modem, or something else. You can try calling your ISP for help about that.

There is no such program to monitor firewalls, as they are themselves monitoring software, which monitor incoming/outgoing connections.

That goes for antivirus too. You yourself will have to check if the antivirus is working or not. You can do that from the interface of the antivirus program, and look at its activity. Generally, if the icon of the antivirus program is there in the system tray, and there are no signs of stopped activity on the icon, it means that the program is up and running.