Disabling firewall with a script

[Guest]

How can i disable the firewall with a script.
Do I need to modify the registry? If yes how can I modify the registry if
the firewall is activated?

Thanks

 

[Jim Macklin]

just download a virus, it will "fix" your firewall.


| How can i disable the firewall with a script.
| Do I need to modify the registry? If yes how can I modify
the registry if
| the firewall is activated?
|
| Thanks
|

 

[Guest]

Not good answer, it would be enough to write: It is not possible!.

Thanks.

I am administrator of the computers, the anly metter is the the computers
are too much!

 

[Jim Macklin]

Let see, you did not identify the type of firewall. You
have some task you want to perform, but did not say what
that was/is either.
You don't communicate well, " I am administrator of the
computers, the anly metter is the the computers
| are too much!" means what to you, it means nothing to me.




| Not good answer, it would be enough to write: It is not
possible!.
|
| Thanks.
|
| I am administrator of the computers, the anly metter is
the the computers
| are too much!
|
|
| "Jim Macklin" wrote:
|
| > just download a virus, it will "fix" your firewall.
| >
| >
message
| >
| > | How can i disable the firewall with a script.
| > | Do I need to modify the registry? If yes how can I
modify
| > the registry if
| > | the firewall is activated?
| > |
| > | Thanks
| > |
| >
| >
| >

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

How can i disable the firewall with a script.
Do I need to modify the registry? If yes how can I modify the
registry if the firewall is activated?

Hi

If you have Active Directory, use Group Policy for this, more about
Windows Firewall Group Policy settings in WF_XPSP2.doc:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4454e0e1-61fa-447a-bdcd-499f73a637d1


If Group Policy is not an option:

An alternative is to set some registry settings before or after the
SP2 installation so the FW disables itself when it finds those
registry settings.

The registry settings are:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile
\EnableFirewall=0 (DWORD data type)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\StandardProfile
\EnableFirewall=0 (DWORD data type)

(adding the registry values after SP2 is installed will also disable
the firewall at next startup)

Those registry values are documented in WF_XPSP2.doc

WF_XPSP2.doc "Deploying Windows Firewall Settings for Microsoft
Windows XP with Service Pack 2" is downloadable from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4454e0e1-61fa-447a-bdcd-499f73a637d1


This VBScript (.vbs) creates the registry values that disables the
firewall:

'--------------------8<----------------------
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

oShell.RegWrite "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall" _
& "\DomainProfile\EnableFirewall", 0, "REG_DWORD"

oShell.RegWrite "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall" _
& "\StandardProfile\EnableFirewall", 0, "REG_DWORD"

'--------------------8<----------------------

 

[Guest]

Thank you Torgeir, that's what we hav done.

Hi

If you have Active Directory, use Group Policy for this, more about
Windows Firewall Group Policy settings in WF_XPSP2.doc:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4454e0e1-61fa-447a-bdcd-499f73a637d1


If Group Policy is not an option:

An alternative is to set some registry settings before or after the
SP2 installation so the FW disables itself when it finds those
registry settings.

The registry settings are:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile
\EnableFirewall=0 (DWORD data type)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\StandardProfile
\EnableFirewall=0 (DWORD data type)

(adding the registry values after SP2 is installed will also disable
the firewall at next startup)

Those registry values are documented in WF_XPSP2.doc

WF_XPSP2.doc "Deploying Windows Firewall Settings for Microsoft
Windows XP with Service Pack 2" is downloadable from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4454e0e1-61fa-447a-bdcd-499f73a637d1


This VBScript (.vbs) creates the registry values that disables the
firewall:

'--------------------8<----------------------
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

oShell.RegWrite "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall" _
& "\DomainProfile\EnableFirewall", 0, "REG_DWORD"

oShell.RegWrite "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall" _
& "\StandardProfile\EnableFirewall", 0, "REG_DWORD"

'--------------------8<----------------------

--
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx