Hello Mr. Boots,
I don't know about the onecare firewall being fixed.
this is my experience, which I sent to ms on 4/22:
I am a lone, home end-user - only one computer on this "network"
I subscribed to the 90-day trial ms onecare package (73 days
remaining).
the onecare firewall seems to periodically, and without
annunciation, shut itself off: "windows firewall service is not running."
I forgot how I learned of the cessation.
attempts to turn it on yield, "due to an unidentified problem, Windows
cannot display windows firewall settings"
it's set for "automatic upgrade," and automatic upgrade appears to be
functioning normally. yet, in an attempt to get it running by "kicking"
it, I pressed the *manual* upgrade button; this yielded, "Windows
firewall was unable to make the requested updates."
windows firewall has been problematical since the beginning (about 5
-6 weeks ago): I was on the phone with 2 ms techs for nearly 4 hours
(countless reboots) to have vista's "windows security center" recognize
windows firewall.
I recently downloaded, from RealNetwork Website, and installed - but
never actually used - Real Player. It was not until after I installed that I
read RealPlayer's eula. it says that "I agree" to have RealNetwork
reconfigure my firewall, open the udp port, install cookies from
different companies (Rhapsody, Mozilla, to name two), and certain
other liberties (details elude me at this moment).
thinking that there may be a connection between this instant windows
firewall incident and the RealPlayer bundled adware shenanigans, I
uninstalled RealPlayer (one day after I installed it) - notwithstanding
that windows firewall has, as I've said, ceased before.
do you think that the onecare firewall stopped because RealPlayer
reconfigured firewall (opening a udp port, allowing cookies of who
knows what type)?
anyway, what can I do about getting onecare firewall turned back on?
and please offer me detailed, explanative instruction so I can learn
from this.
many thanks.
