Re: Potetial Outpost Conflicts?

[Colin Rous]

I suspected this question would come up. While I think it is somewhat off-topic, I'll answer it in case others are interested in my rationale.

At 01:21 PM 16/01/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:23:49 -0500, you wrote:

Paranoid?

Having spent over twenty-five years (yes, 25 years!) in computer security, I don't consider it paranoia; I consider it due diligence. As I said originally, I also run two virus scanners. I also run both Ad-aware and Spybot. In fact, wherever possible I run multiple varieties of *any* security process.

Why would you want to run a second and a third copy of software that
does the same thing?

I don't. I run two copies of software with the same *objectives*. They do different things in different ways.

The practice of multiples will slow your system down and add
instability and vulnerabilities as stated by the programmers.

I'll live with the performance hit. I won't tolerate instability and vulnerabilities which is why I asked the question.

I think I'd sleep better knowing that at least one program is working
to spec without the worry of not knowing if it helps to run multiples
without a guarantee of performance.

How do you know it's "working to spec"? How do you even know what its spec is? If you sleep well with one firewall, good on you; I sleep better with two.

Cheers,
Colin