Firewall: Security Center Shows On, Should Be Off

[Guest]

Hello,

I have a machine that shipped with XP Home. I have since paid for and
installed an update to profession xp sp2. However, I have a new problem. I
can't turn off the windows firewall. When I go to the security center, it's
on. When I go to the firewall section, it's off. IP traffic is blocked, so
it must be on.

I have:

* turned it on and off all the usual ways.
* explored group policty and nothing is locking it on.
* looked at REGEDIT and all the key/values looked right.

Any ideas on how I can turn this off?

 

[Colin Nash [MVP]]

Hello,

I have a machine that shipped with XP Home. I have since paid for and
installed an update to profession xp sp2. However, I have a new problem.
I
can't turn off the windows firewall. When I go to the security center,
it's
on. When I go to the firewall section, it's off. IP traffic is blocked,
so
it must be on.

I have:

* turned it on and off all the usual ways.
* explored group policty and nothing is locking it on.
* looked at REGEDIT and all the key/values looked right.

Any ideas on how I can turn this off?

Firewall will show as "on" in Security Center if you have another (3rd
party) firewall product installed and detected (example: McAfee,
Norton/Symantec, ZoneAlarm.) Is this the case?

Security Centre's job is to alert you if you have no firewall at all
installed, it's not related to *only* the built-in Windows Firewall.

You can also Start->Run->SERVICES.MSC and try stopping and disabling the
Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing service. (This is not normally
required.)

What are you trying to accomplish? Are you trying to troubleshoot a problem
where it appears that some traffic is being blocked? If so it could be a
router issue (if you have a router.)

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the re:.

For the record, I hate being the guy that asks the question with a
relatively obvious answer. I hate norton system works 2005, which was
installed and running, more for not having a clear "Firewall" prompt that I
could find.

Anyway: thanks for the push I needed to look again. That solved it. Cheers,