nVidia makes firewalls? I say scrap both and get a single good firewall such as Sygate. Having more than one firewall can cause some problems.
kerio is one that has been well used and liked by many who wants free firewall but still beeing paranoid about security
hardware firewalls should run fine alongside software firewalls. i recomend zone alarm and your routers wall
Depends if you want configurability, Sygate offers more, but both are good in protecting. Select the third option and install a firewall. Windows firewall doesn't really do much tbh, and is usually enabled by default.
so which option shall i go with, at a later date i will download zone alarm or what ever this is just tempory but i want to get it right, i think the top is best?
Don't install the nVidia firewall. It's crap. Choose the last option and then just install a good one such as Sygate or ZoneAlarm fairly soon.
hard to say. windows firewall is about as effective as putting a cheeseburger on your ethernet cable. Select it for now and download a better firewall as soon as you have net acess
uninstall NVIDIA Network Access Manager from control panel, it's a pain in the arse if you keep your computer runing for more than 24 hours.
What did the firewall come with? The mobo software bundle or something, I didn't even know nVidia did firewalls!
There's an onboard "ActiveArmour" firewall. I don't know a huge amount about it, but the software that runs it is useless and can screw up network connections quite badly (as well as cause BSODs iirc).
it's an onboard firewall... and there should be norton internet security on the same disc aswell... though that would be on asus a8n-sli family mobo driver disc
