Re: Firewall for Windows XP

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospam.cableone.net)
Date: 08/25/03 

Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 19:23:01 -0600

Greetings --

    I'm afraid I've no knowledge of MSN, but I wouldn't think that
Microsoft would do something so foolish as to copy AOL's deplorable
programming habits. What does MSN's support folks have to say about
this?

Bruce Chambers 

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"Kylee Jones" <imkylee@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:026801c36aa6$5eb45da0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Bruce,
>
> I am on MSN and having the same problem as Chris.  Does
> this mean that Microsoft is deliberatly keeping people
> from enabling the firewall to protect themselves - even
> though they tell us to?
>
> Do you know if is this a new feature?  A friend of mine
> has an older version of MSN Explorer, and he did not have
> a problem enabling his firewall.
>
> Any help you can offer would be very welcome.
>
> In the meantime, I'm off on a quest for more answers...
>
> Thanks,
> Kylee

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