SP2 Security Center popups

[The-Mercenary]

I have just completely formatted and resintalled windows XP with SP2 and
all is fine except I have the firewall disabled (got a hardware one) yet
after a reboot it tells me its disabled and keeps warning me.

I have disabled all notifications in the security center and even edited
the registry to set both FirewallDisableNotify and FirewallOverride to 1
yet after a reboot the values are changed back shortly after logon.

Is there somthing that could be setting these to the default value?

Many Thanks

 

[Maurice N]

I have just completely formatted and resintalled windows XP with SP2
and all is fine except I have the firewall disabled (got a hardware
one) yet after a reboot it tells me its disabled and keeps warning me.

I have disabled all notifications in the security center and even
edited the registry to set both FirewallDisableNotify and
FirewallOverride to 1 yet after a reboot the values are changed back
shortly after logon.

Is there somthing that could be setting these to the default value?

Many Thanks

Hello,
Are you using Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) ?
If not using ICS , AND you do not wish to use the xp firewall.... Run services.msc and disable Windows Firewall / ICS service.

Use Security Center to re-review notification settings, and restart XP.

I'm not using XP firewall (but ZoneAlarm) and did my selections through both Control Panel & Security Center.
Told it to not monitor firewall.

My settings for Security Center in registry:
at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center
FirewallDisableNotify = 1 and FirewallOverride = 1.

I'm not getting any nag popups.

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

I have just completely formatted and resintalled windows XP with SP2 and
all is fine except I have the firewall disabled (got a hardware one) yet
after a reboot it tells me its disabled and keeps warning me.

I have disabled all notifications in the security center and even edited
the registry to set both FirewallDisableNotify and FirewallOverride to 1
yet after a reboot the values are changed back shortly after logon.

Is there somthing that could be setting these to the default value?

Many Thanks

Hi

Someone in another newsgroup thread indicated that a Symantec service
was the cause for this behavior on his computer (I can't remember in
what newsgroup though).

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Hi

Someone in another newsgroup thread indicated that a Symantec service
was the cause for this behavior on his computer (I can't remember in
what newsgroup though).

I am having the same problem, and the Norton issue could be it. When
I updated Norton Anti-Virus, it talked about WMI or something like
that. Does anybody know where I can go to change that setting now? I
am curious if that is my problem.

Jeff

 

[Jeff Grossman]

I am having the same problem, and the Norton issue could be it. When
I updated Norton Anti-Virus, it talked about WMI or something like
that. Does anybody know where I can go to change that setting now? I
am curious if that is my problem.

Jeff

After reading some more information on Symantec, it appears the only
way to change that setting is completely remove Norton Anti-Virus and
re-install. Wow, another reason to leave Symantec. What do people
recommend for Anti-Virus solutions?

Jeff