Re: Windows Firewall

From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:08:44 -0800

David Hardy wrote:

> I hope someone can help me here, I'm trying to turn off the Firewall
> in XP service pack 2,(we have our own Checkpoint one).
>
> OK so I think I'll just turn it off, that'll do it. Restart the PC and
> the things back on, repeat the operation, back on.
>
> So I created a custom 'netfw'.inf file to turn off the firewall, used
> the command 'netsh firewall reset' to implement the settings, and it
> works everything is turned off.
> Now when I reboot the PC the settings are back to the defaults again
> ie, firewall is on, block exceptions etc.
>
> Strange I think, I know I'll do it through Group Policy (Win2k), so I
> set the policy settings to disable the firewall (both domain and
> standard profile), restart the PC to apply the policy, it's still set
> to the default( on etc).
>
> ArrrrrrGGGHHHH
>
> What is happening here? Can you actuall turn this thing off for good?
>
> Please help

You can stop the Windows Firewall service by running services.msc and
scrolling down to Windows Firewall. Stop the service and disable it.

Malke 

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