XP Home SP2 Firewall problem

From: Matt Barratt (mattb247_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:05:02 -0700

Hi,

upgraded to SP2 a week ago and went through the security
centre to enable the firewall, today I had to add a new
network connection and it says all the connections I have
are just 'Enabled', not 'Enabled,Firewalled'. When I
popped up the security centre it clearly says Firewall is
ON but it isn't. Anyway, manually turned firewall ON and
all was OK for a while but on rebooting it goes back
firewall disabled. I am also running ZoneAlarm Security
Suite which I ran before with no firewall issues - any
ideas?

Regards,

Matt

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