Re: Turning off Firewall in AOL

From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (jamescagney90210@excite.com)
Date: 12/27/02 

From: "Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <jamescagney90210@excite.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 17:55:06 -0500

"Wishingstars" <WishingStars@aol.com> wrote in message
news:00dd01c2adcd$94929310$d3f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA10...
> Can someone tell me how to turn off the XP firewall when
> using AOL 8.0? I realize that AOL doesn't use traditional
> Windows dial-up networking but I need to turn off the
> firewall in order to access the Leapfrog Mindstation on my
> serial port. Thanks.

Sounds like a tremendously bad idea, but try here:

http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#icf

You could try switching to another firewall such as the free www.sygate.com
Find out which firewalls AOL is compatible with. If the answer is none of
them, then ask for a manager and take your business elsewhere. XP is like
over a year old now, enough time to fix their product.

http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#firewall 

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