Re: Enabling Firewall

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospam.cableone.net)
Date: 08/15/03 

Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:05:23 -0600

Greetings --

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

  AOL (an on-line content provider that ignores international
Internetworking standards in favor of its own proprietary products),
has deliberately made its connection software incompatible with both
WinXP's built-in firewall and WinXP's Internet Connection Sharing
feature. AOL's proprietary connection applet is deliberately designed
to preclude your setting/adjusting any of its properties, to include
enabling/disabling WinXP's ICF and ICS.

Bruce Chambers 

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"Roger" <rundivo@aol.com> wrote in message
news:095b01c362cc$a2906b90$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I'm trying to enable the firewall for a dial-up connection
> on Microsoft XP Home Edition.  When I get to the Network
> Tasks window and click on "Change settings of this
> connection", nothing happens.  ISP is AOL.

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