Re: Firewall: Security Center Shows On, Should Be Off
- From: "Colin Nash [MVP]" <cnashx@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 18:19:24 -0400
"fivesticks" <fivesticks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,
I have a machine that shipped with XP Home. I have since paid for and
installed an update to profession xp sp2. However, I have a new problem.
I
can't turn off the windows firewall. When I go to the security center,
it's
on. When I go to the firewall section, it's off. IP traffic is blocked,
so
it must be on.
I have:
* turned it on and off all the usual ways.
* explored group policty and nothing is locking it on.
* looked at REGEDIT and all the key/values looked right.
Any ideas on how I can turn this off?
Firewall will show as "on" in Security Center if you have another (3rd
party) firewall product installed and detected (example: McAfee,
Norton/Symantec, ZoneAlarm.) Is this the case?
Security Centre's job is to alert you if you have no firewall at all
installed, it's not related to *only* the built-in Windows Firewall.
You can also Start->Run->SERVICES.MSC and try stopping and disabling the
Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing service. (This is not normally
required.)
What are you trying to accomplish? Are you trying to troubleshoot a problem
where it appears that some traffic is being blocked? If so it could be a
router issue (if you have a router.)
--
Colin Nash
Microsoft MVP
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