Re: firewall

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospam.cableone.net)
Date: 08/17/03 

Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 10:54:07 -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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"mt" <mtnguyen5000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:03e601c36468$4de203e0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Somehow I was not able to turn on my fire wall, even with
> the instruction given.  I heard that if you are using AOL
> internet connection, you wont be able to turn on your fire
> wall.  Is this true?  When I went to "Network
> Connections", I was not able use the "Properties" feature.
> How should I solve this?
> Thanks

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