XP Sp2 Firewall

[Guest]

My XP firewall needs to be re-activated each time I re-boot my system??
Anyone know what may be causing this and/or have a work around for it short
of un-installing sp2 and re-installing?

thanks,

Hudson

 

[Galen]

In Hudson77 <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

My XP firewall needs to be re-activated each time I re-boot my
system?? Anyone know what may be causing this and/or have a work
around for it short of un-installing sp2 and re-installing?

thanks,

Hudson

Do you have a third party firewall or internet security suite (from Norton
or McAfee or another such company) installed? If so and you do not want to
use their firewall portion of their application you may want to go ahead and
uninstall that if possible. Try looking for that and if the answer is still
"it's still shutting off" then there's a couple of other ideas such as
checking the services and making sure that the firewall is set to run
automatically etc.

Galen
--

"You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his
trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will
come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all."

Sherlock Holmes

 

[alfranze]

If the instructions in the emails below didn´t work - you can be with a
undetected worm.
The Windows XP SP2 made available a dangerous command line - netsh firewall
set - that can easily be called for CreateProcess function and put DISABLE
the Firewall at the boot ....
If is this, run the regedit looking for keys and msconfig-services for
something wrong.

alf