How do I turn the Windows Firewall off?

[Guest]

Hi!

How do I, temporarily of course and when offline, make sure the Windows
Firewall is turned off? I need to know because the creator of my duplicate
image detector told me "I know some firewall freezes when overloaded. And
VisiPics + P2P can very certainly overload a firewall"

I'm not sure if it's off or not because the main Security Canter window says
it's on, but when I click the button/link to manage the Windows irewall
settings, that area tells me that it's off. Restarting doesn't change
anything

 

[Shenan Stanley]

How do I, temporarily of course and when offline, make sure the
Windows Firewall is turned off? I need to know because the creator
of my duplicate image detector told me "I know some firewall
freezes when overloaded. And VisiPics + P2P can very certainly
overload a firewall"

I'm not sure if it's off or not because the main Security Canter
window says it's on, but when I click the button/link to manage the
Windows irewall settings, that area tells me that it's off.
Restarting doesn't change anything

I'd question any software that would 'overload' a firewall - especially
since you are implying you will be using it only when you are not connected
to the Internet (meaning it is not necessary to be connected to the Internet
to run it - so why would it do ANYTHING with your network?

 

[Ghostrider]

Hi!

How do I, temporarily of course and when offline, make sure the Windows
Firewall is turned off? I need to know because the creator of my duplicate
image detector told me "I know some firewall freezes when overloaded. And
VisiPics + P2P can very certainly overload a firewall"

I'm not sure if it's off or not because the main Security Canter window says
it's on, but when I click the button/link to manage the Windows irewall
settings, that area tells me that it's off. Restarting doesn't change
anything

What is actually being asked of you? The actions of a firewall should
not figure into anything when the firewall is properly set up to work
with trusted sites. But to turn it off completely when running peer-
to-peer (?), i.e., presumably connected, to run VisiPics (what's that?)
does not make sense.

And as for a firewall, there are better choices than the one that
comes with Windows XP SP2.

 

[Rock]

Hi!

How do I, temporarily of course and when offline, make sure the Windows
Firewall is turned off? I need to know because the creator of my
duplicate
image detector told me "I know some firewall freezes when overloaded. And
VisiPics + P2P can very certainly overload a firewall"

I'm not sure if it's off or not because the main Security Canter window
says
it's on, but when I click the button/link to manage the Windows irewall
settings, that area tells me that it's off. Restarting doesn't change
anything

This statement by this person doesn't make any sense. In any event turn it
off by disabling the Windows Firewall / Internet Connection Sharing service
through Start | Run | services.msc | Ok.

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

"Cloudchaser the Red Wolf furry" wrote

If you aren't online, there's no traffic, thus nothing to overload a
firewall. So there's no need to disable XP's firewall in such case.

OTOH, if you do suffer traffic overload, then you were not as
"offline" as you thought you were (hello, WiFi?) and it would be a
good thing you had the firewall to jump on the grenade.

BTW, the limitation your advisor's referring to, may be that which is
built into SP2, at a level where the firewall state is not relevant.

SP2 limits network connections (I think it's "pending" connections,
i.e. at the initial handshaking level) as a way of braking malware
spread (specifically, the kind of pure network worm clickless attacks
that can otherwise go global in a few minutes).

I haven't found this limitation to have any adverse effect on my
systems, but it may limit the volume of concurrent access where
peer-2-peer file sharing is concerned - that's why I think it is this
he's referring to, rather than firewalls (and XP's firewall in
particular) as such.

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[Kelly]

OP,

See line 386 (right hand side):
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

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