how do you turn off firewall

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how do you totally turn off the vista firewall on all interfaces? i have no
need for it.
 
AMDX2 said:
how do you totally turn off the vista firewall on all interfaces? i have
no need for it.
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If you have installed a third party firewall it should have turned off the
Windows firewall. If you have not installed a third party firewall, you do
need the Windows firewall.
 
If you have installed a third party firewall it should have turned off the
Windows firewall. If you have not installed a third party firewall, you do
need the Windows firewall.
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Maybe I listen to too much Leo Laporte, but I thought if you had a
home router you did not need a firewall?
 
Control Panel | Windows Firewall | Advanced Settings | Off.

That should turn it off on all interfaces, as well. Windows may throw up a
complaint, but you can change that in the Control Panel | Security Center |
left pane where it says "Change the way Security Center alerts me".
 
JimR said:
If you have installed a third party firewall it should have turned off the
Windows firewall. If you have not installed a third party firewall, you do
need the Windows firewall.
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I've been running for years without a firewall. Nothing has yet made it
through Nat on my router. So, how do you turn off the Vista firewall?
 
Is it a resource hog?
"Zootal" <Don't send me any freaking spam at zootal dot com remove the don't
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SwampYankee said:
Maybe I listen to too much Leo Laporte, but I thought if you had a
home router you did not need a firewall?
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If you are behind a "home router", it will stop all incoming packets. I have
operated like this for years, and nothing has ever gotten through. The
router stops all incoming packets. It will NOT stop outgoing packets, so if
your computer gets infected, it can spread it's disease to the rest of the
world. For the most part a good AV will stop the infection. Good antivirus
is essential, a firewall is not.

If you are not behind NAT, but are instead open to the Internet without a
firewall, and you run Windows, it's like putting up a sign saying "I'm here,
hack me, I'm here!". I made the mistake of connecting my laptop to the
Internet without a firewall or router (I used dialup), and it didn't take 5
mintues before some nasty used one of the many vulnerabilities of Windows to
infect my system. I ended up having to wipe the drive and reloaded Windows.
Painful lesson learned - never connect directly to the Internet without a
firewall.
 
irrespective of whether we think you need a firewall or not (and I would
definitely recommend it even if you're behind a NAT router with SPI) you can
disable the firewall via control panel /security center.

You'll be repeatedly nagged by Vista that you don't have the firewall
enabled until you indicate to Vista that you have a firewall that you will
manage yourself.

Joe
 
JimR said:
If you have installed a third party firewall it should have turned off the
Windows firewall. If you have not installed a third party firewall, you do
need the Windows firewall.
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No, I don't need any software firewall. I am secure without it since I am
totally protected by my Sonicwall and it also causes many issues.

So how do you shut it off totally?
 
"Zootal" <Don't send me any freaking spam at zootal dot com remove the don't
send me any freaking spam> wrote in message
If you are behind a "home router", it will stop all incoming packets. I
have operated like this for years, and nothing has ever gotten through.
The router stops all incoming packets. It will NOT stop outgoing packets,
so if your computer gets infected, it can spread it's disease to the rest
of the world. For the most part a good AV will stop the infection. Good
antivirus is essential, a firewall is not.

If you are not behind NAT, but are instead open to the Internet without a
firewall, and you run Windows, it's like putting up a sign saying "I'm
here, hack me, I'm here!". I made the mistake of connecting my laptop to
the Internet without a firewall or router (I used dialup), and it didn't
take 5 mintues before some nasty used one of the many vulnerabilities of
Windows to infect my system. I ended up having to wipe the drive and
reloaded Windows. Painful lesson learned - never connect directly to the
Internet without a firewall.
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None of you are answering my question. Do not get off topic!!
 
Joe Guidera said:
irrespective of whether we think you need a firewall or not (and I would
definitely recommend it even if you're behind a NAT router with SPI) you
can disable the firewall via control panel /security center.

You'll be repeatedly nagged by Vista that you don't have the firewall
enabled until you indicate to Vista that you have a firewall that you will
manage yourself.

Joe
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you do not turn off the firewall in security center. there is nothing to do
with that in there. sheese.
 
Dustin Harper said:
Control Panel | Windows Firewall | Advanced Settings | Off.

That should turn it off on all interfaces, as well. Windows may throw up a
complaint, but you can change that in the Control Panel | Security Center
| left pane where it says "Change the way Security Center alerts me".
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there is no advanced settings in there.
 
Control Panel / Windows Firewall / Turn Windows Firewall on or off

After you've turned it off you can also stop the "Windows Firewall Service"
and set it to Manual start, in Administrative tools / Services

I personally run my network behind a real hardware firewall and never run
software firewalls of any description. I've never had any PC compromised,
but I'll admit the software firewalls are very useful for people who don't
have the ability to set up appropriate rules on a real one.

Now if MS would just let me turn off that stupid 10 half open TCP connection
limit as well .....

Peter Lawton
 
AMDX2 said:
there is no advanced settings in there.
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it really is quite simple... start orb > type windows firewall and hit
enter > on the left hand side of the window there are options to turn on
or off the firewall

regards,

tom
 
"Zootal" <Don't send me any freaking spam at zootal dot com remove the don't
send me any freaking spam> wrote in message
If you are behind a "home router", it will stop all incoming packets. I
have operated like this for years, and nothing has ever gotten through.
The router stops all incoming packets. It will NOT stop outgoing packets,
so if your computer gets infected, it can spread it's disease to the rest
of the world.
Click to expand...

If your computer got infected by something sophisticated enough, do you not
think it could just turn the damn firewall off itself, or better still
quietly create an exception for itself? A 'software firewall' running on a
system is at the tender mercy of ever other system level process running on
that machine, such as any currently running malware.
 
See my previous response.

AMDX2 said:
No, I don't need any software firewall. I am secure without it since I am
totally protected by my Sonicwall and it also causes many issues.

So how do you shut it off totally?
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Robert Moir said:
"Zootal" <Don't send me any freaking spam at zootal dot com remove the
don't send me any freaking spam> wrote in message


If your computer got infected by something sophisticated enough, do you
not think it could just turn the damn firewall off itself, or better still
quietly create an exception for itself? A 'software firewall' running on a
system is at the tender mercy of ever other system level process running
on that machine, such as any currently running malware.
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please let's stay on topic. If this thread could be closed i would have it
closed because there was a message that did help me a lot, but it's usenet
so it can't be closed.
 
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