Firewall for Windows XP

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Chris Bowman

Am on Windows XP. Trying to install the firewall,
although don't think I've been unlucky enough to get bug
at moment. Following instructions from your website, and
when I get to right clicking on the Dial up, Lan or High
Speed Internet Connection, I have problems. We are on
dial up, so I right click on that and then click on
Properties and nothing seems to happen. On the Advanced
tab, I do not have a heading 'Internet Connection
Firewall' so cannot proceed any further. In desperation
I right clicked on 1394 Net Adapter (although I don't
know what that really means!) and I seem to have
installed a firewall on that - can somebody tell me if I
have actually installed the firewall or not? I'm
confused!

Chris
 
if the connection is firewalled there will be a lock on
that icon, like the hand when u share it.

but i suggest u disable windows firewall and use third
party firewall such as zonealarm
 
Bruce,

I am on MSN and having the same problem as Chris. Does
this mean that Microsoft is deliberatly keeping people
from enabling the firewall to protect themselves - even
though they tell us to?

Do you know if is this a new feature? A friend of mine
has an older version of MSN Explorer, and he did not have
a problem enabling his firewall.

Any help you can offer would be very welcome.

In the meantime, I'm off on a quest for more answers...

Thanks,
Kylee
 
Bruce,

They tell me to delete this, restart that, the connection
must be corrupted, it's a problem with XP....

I've spoken with them 4 times, and the best information
I've had so far has come from a Microsoft Tech on one of
the Newsgroups.

He said it was a design decision made by MSN to prevent
people from changing their settings. However, when I
even hinted at that with one of the techs, they very
sternly told me they were not allowed to prevent people
from accessing their settings.

UGH!

Thanks for your help.

Kylee
 
Greetings --

Sorry to hear that. I guess, since Microsoft is trying to woo AOL
users away with MSN, they felt they also needed to dumb-down the
connection applet. I consider such a course deplorable; but I'm not
chasing the lowest common denominator, like businesses often feel they
must.


Bruce Chambers

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Bruce,

MSN still will not take credit for the block on their
connection. The last representative I spoke with asked
me WHY I wanted to enable my firewall. When I told her I
was only trying to do what Microsoft & MSN had told me to
do in order to protect my computer, she said "Oh..."
From that point she was very helpful and gave me the
information I needed to create my own connection and
enable my firewall.

I'm still bothered by the whole thing, but at least I
have a little more control over my computer now.

Thanks for your help.

Kylee
 
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