Re: Help....windows firewall

From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 08:41:15 -0600

saigalt wrote:
> Hi .....curiously I am having the same ...exactly to the T...as
> patti..allI can add by way of diagnosis is that mine appears to have
> started this morning after I downloaded the MS antispyware beta
> version . It appears that has altered my firewall seetings in some
> form and manner .

Shenan Stanley wrote:
> And what happens when you UNINSTALL the Beta Software?

saigalt wrote:
> Welll.... Iam a bit nervous about doing that lest it does some
> further " alterations" on the way out ( not comfy uninstalling and
> installing stuff ) and also I have removed the other spyware that i
> had on. I would have thought that the Beta would be compatible with
> the MS firewallon SP2...

You would think that.. BUT.. It is "Beta" software. heh
(Beta = Testing = I never install it on a PRODUCTION machine. Only a TEST
machine.) 

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