Re: Firewall and AOL

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospam.cableone.net)
Date: 08/14/03 

Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 22:30:27 -0600

Greetings --

    You'll need to find a 3rd party firewall that is compatible with
AOL.

    AOL has deliberately made their software incompatible with WinXP's
firewall. AOL's proprietary connection applet is deliberately
designed to preclude your setting/adjusting any of its properties, to
include enabling/disabling WinXP's firewall, which is
connection-specific.

Bruce Chambers 

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"Bob" <krausrp@aol.com> wrote in message
news:00f601c36218$c9693bc0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> I cannot access the firewall on my dial-up AOL
> connection.  I follow Microsoft's instruction for
> activating the firewall.  I right click on the AOL icon
> in "network connections" and get the drop down meun.  When
> I click on the properties in order to get to
> the "advanced" property, nothing happens, no additional
> menus.  If I click on the LAN connection (which I don't
> have) icon, I can get to the advanced properties where the
> enable firewall is. Is my firewall with AOL working?  AOL
> says its Microsoft's problem.

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