MS Fire wall sometimes shuts down by itself

[Guest]

After rebooting the computer, the yellow ballon comes up asking to enable MS
SP2 firewall. I enable the firewall and sometimes an hour later the ballon
comes up again asking me to enable the MS SP2 firewall once again. I am
running a Dell Dimension 4600C: 3gig processor, 512 megs of RAM, 40gig HD. I
am running Zone Alarm Pro, Webroot Spyblaster, Norton Antivirus, MSM
messenger and Popup Stopper basic. If anyone has an idea about what is going
on here and how to stop the problem, please let me know. Also, is this a very
common problem with SP2?

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Have a look in the Event Viewer. There may be an entry that shows why this
problem is occuring. If you have ZAP running, there is no need for the XP
Firewall to be running as well.

 

[Guest]

Will:

Thanks for the reply. I am not sure what ZAP is but if you let me
know I can check. I will check the event viewer but not sure what I am
looking for there. I am running Norton Antivirus but I don't beleive that I
am running a Norton firewall. This firewall shutdown does not happen all the
time, but I leave my machine on 24/7 usually. After rebooting though it
sometimes takes a few hours or constant running and the yellow ballon comes
up telling me to fire up the firewall even though I had just enabled it
several hours before. Again thanks for the help and let me know what I should
be looking for in the Event viewer and tell me what ZAP is and where to look
for it.

Patrick

 

[Guest]

Will:

I feel like a jerk. After I sent the reply I saw what you meant be
ZAP(Zone Alarm Plus). I just need to know what to look for in the Event
Viewer that might tell me why it is happening. Thanks again.

Pat

 

[Richard Urban]

If you have the latest version of ZoneAlarm, it will turn off the built in
SP2 firewall. As long as ZoneAlarm is still running you have a non-issue!

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard