XP SP2 + Firewall

From: Alex Southern (Southern_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:57:01 -0800

As group policy we have set the Firewall to be disabled, I assume this means
that it will allow any program to open any connection. But it is still
refusing connections using PC Anywhere and wouldn't work unless I added this
software to the Application Permissions List.

Any ideas?

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