Re: Firewall will not let me enable it

From: Doug Knox MS-MVP (dknox_at_mvps.org)
Date: 05/18/05


Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 12:41:16 -0400

Check AVG's firewall itself and see if its running. As this is beta software, it may not correctly expose itself to the Security Center so it knows its running.

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"Nicole" <Nicole@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:80E8153C-7571-4F25-8180-7D390B3031F4@microsoft.com...
> Can someone please help me ,i just received a message from my security 
> manager that my firewall(XP) has been disabled somehow and will not let me 
> enable it.Keeps telling me that that the associated service is not running 
> and when i go to click on run associated service it wont allow it to.
> I went into the Windows Security Centre and it says that AVG firewall is 
> turned off.Now i have been using XP's firewall so unsure as to why that has 
> come up.
> 
> PLz help :)
> 
> Thank you Nicole


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