Installing XP SP2 broke my Panda firewall

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Everything was working great since I installed Panda AV Plantinum 7.x a
few months ago onto an XP Pro machne. I like Panda's a/v. The firewall
was a bit simple, but I keep using it because its integrated and its
only a test box.

Installed SP2. Now no network at all. Email, Firefox, IE etc.

Checked the support pages on Panda's site. There are exactly the right
questions, but all the answers are about how to use a firewall, and
making sure you have allowed net access to the relevant programs.

But I know (believe) everything had the right permissions, and I even
checked them, and uninstalled/reinstalled the Panda s/w and downloaded
all the Panda updates.

Tried Googling Panda + Firewall + SP2 but I couldn't really find
anything satisfactory (I will keep trying this in the meantime).

At the moment, turned off Pandas firewall, and put on KPF 2.1.5. The
other 2 bits of the Panda A/V (permanent protection & email protection)
seem to be working fine.

I am thinking its something I've broken on my machine (I just figure
that if there really were an incompatibility, there would be Google and
Panda support hit all over the place).

Just looking for suggestions as to where I might start looking. Or
maybe leave Panda's firewall off and finally shell out for that Tiny
Firewall I've read good things about ("very good but hard to use"),

w4tch3r
 
w4tch3r said:
Everything was working great since I installed Panda AV Plantinum 7.x a
few months ago onto an XP Pro machne. I like Panda's a/v. The firewall
was a bit simple, but I keep using it because its integrated and its
only a test box.

Installed SP2. Now no network at all. Email, Firefox, IE etc.

Checked the support pages on Panda's site. There are exactly the right
questions, but all the answers are about how to use a firewall, and
making sure you have allowed net access to the relevant programs.

But I know (believe) everything had the right permissions, and I even
checked them, and uninstalled/reinstalled the Panda s/w and downloaded
all the Panda updates.

Tried Googling Panda + Firewall + SP2 but I couldn't really find
anything satisfactory (I will keep trying this in the meantime).

At the moment, turned off Pandas firewall, and put on KPF 2.1.5. The
other 2 bits of the Panda A/V (permanent protection & email protection)
seem to be working fine.

I am thinking its something I've broken on my machine (I just figure
that if there really were an incompatibility, there would be Google and
Panda support hit all over the place).

Just looking for suggestions as to where I might start looking. Or
maybe leave Panda's firewall off and finally shell out for that Tiny
Firewall I've read good things about ("very good but hard to use"),

w4tch3r
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SP2 adds a new Windows Firewall that is automatically turned on - have you
gone into Windows Firewall and disabled that? If not, that could be causing
your problems. If you are running another firewall then turn the Windows
Firewall OFF.

I run XP Pro SP2 with Zone Alarm and have no such problems, but then again
after installing SP2 I did go into the Windows Firewall and disabled it...
 
SP2 adds a new Windows Firewall that is automatically turned on - have you
gone into Windows Firewall and disabled that? If not, that could be causing
your problems. If you are running another firewall then turn the Windows
Firewall OFF.

I run XP Pro SP2 with Zone Alarm and have no such problems, but then again
after installing SP2 I did go into the Windows Firewall and disabled it...
Click to expand...

Hello. Thank you very much for the reply. Yes I tried firewall off, and
also I tried firewall off *and* service disabled. But still no luck!

In the meantime, I've left Panda's firewall off, installed KPF 2.1 5
that is (appears to be) working the same as it always does.

I also installed a demo version of tiny personal firewall. Whoa. Heaps
of settings. Its a combined firewall/ids/process watcher/file & registry
watcher. I think if I were to use it, I'd be tossing out prevx. Its
got so many features that I can't help wondering how much processor time
it consumes. Although I suppose these days, that's not so significant,

w4tch3r
 
w4tch3r said:
Hello. Thank you very much for the reply. Yes I tried firewall off, and
also I tried firewall off *and* service disabled. But still no luck!

In the meantime, I've left Panda's firewall off, installed KPF 2.1 5
that is (appears to be) working the same as it always does.

I also installed a demo version of tiny personal firewall. Whoa. Heaps
of settings. Its a combined firewall/ids/process watcher/file & registry
watcher. I think if I were to use it, I'd be tossing out prevx. Its
got so many features that I can't help wondering how much processor time
it consumes. Although I suppose these days, that's not so significant,

w4tch3r
Click to expand...

One thing you may want to consider is you have too many security type
applications running resident. Maybe the Panda firewall conflicts with
prevx, for example.
 
One thing you may want to consider is you have too many security type
applications running resident. Maybe the Panda firewall conflicts with
prevx, for example.
Click to expand...

Perhaps yes. Hasn't been a problem in the past 6 months, but with SP2
now it could be a possibility. Thanks for the tip, I'll go searching
the prevx forums as well...
 
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