Re: Turning off auditing for Windows Firewall on XP SP2

From: Gary Karasik (gkarasik_at_fea.net)
Date: 02/10/05


Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:17:07 -0800

I have the same issue as Amihai. Logging is not turned on, but the event
logs are full of these failure audits due to apps listening. How do I turn
them off?

GaryK

"Ron j" <Ronj@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2D8E73E5-5BB5-4369-A462-94717BB324EF@microsoft.com...
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> Hello Amihai,
> The logs you are speaking of are not controlled by Windows firewall.
> They are turned on or off by the admin. You might find it a lot less
> trouble
> not to log your failures. Unless you are trouble shooting , it can keep
> you
> pretty busy just from having to stop working to clear the logs, ie ,
> whenever the securitylog becomes full the system will lock up and only an
> admin can log on to clear it. Hope this was some help. Best of luck to
> you.
> Ron
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> "Amihai Bareket" wrote:
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>> I have a network where users run XP SP2.
>> The Windows Firewall is turned off through GPO, but there are still a lot
>> of
>> failure audit events in the security log.
>> We don't want to turn off auditing for security events, but I don't want
>> Windows FW reporting an event on each listening application.
>>
>> How can I turn off auditing just for the Windows Firewall?
>>
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>>



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