Re: XP Firewall will not enable at system boot

From: Peter (r2d2)
Date: 04/02/05 

Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 16:52:26 -0500

It will be turned off if you have another software firewall enabled... if
you don't then not sure what is causing that. 

-- 
Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Home SP2
P4 dual HT @ 3.0ghz, 1.0gb RAM, 160gb HD
"Arkansas 275" <Arkansas275@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:982DDEEA-2808-43A7-A323-B48D2834DCA4@microsoft.com...
>I am running XP Home SP2.  I use Norton Internet Security with the firewall
> feture disabled.  In spite of all my attempts to get XP SP2 Firewall to
> enable when I boot, it always comes up disabled until I manually enable 
> it.
>
> I update definitions and run Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware SE Plus, Spy Sweeper, 
> and
> antivirus feature of Notron Internet Security 2005 at least once a week so 
> I
> am farely confident that I do not have a virus, worm, or any other such
> malware.
>
> The only suggestion anyone has made was by a couple people who hate Norton
> so they uttered a few comments and told me to uninstall Norton.
>
> Can anyone help with something other than to blame Norton?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> -- 
> Dick

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