RE: Turn firewall off, it turns back on

From: watcher (watcher_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:00:01 -0700

Hi Terry ... this may be of no use, but did you turn off your system restore
before you turned off the firewall? Then turn it back on after the "turn
off" is complete. Hope your firewall issue is that simple to fix... Susan

"Terry" wrote:

> We run a number of XP machines on our domain. We installed SP2 then turned
> off the firewall at the Security Center because it interferes with one of our
> main applications. We have seen three instances where the firewall somehow
> is turned back on. Today, one of our people went to lunch, and when she came
> back the firewall was on and she could not run our main application. I am
> guessing that a policy setting somewhere is the problem and the solution.
> Any ideas?

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