Windows firewall won't stay on

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/Joseph Flynn/ said:

Windows firewall does not stay on. I have set the firewall to be on many
many times, but for some reason every so often I will get a Security
Center alert saying that the firewall is off. Also, it does not stay on
after a restart - I have to turn it on every time I restart Windows. This
does not happen at the office where my computer has XP professional (I
run XP home edition at home). Is there a setting to change to stop this
from happening?

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/Darnit.htm
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Malware_Defence.htm

 

[Joseph Flynn]

Windows firewall does not stay on. I have set the firewall to be on many
many times, but for some reason every so often I will get a Security
Center alert saying that the firewall is off. Also, it does not stay on
after a restart - I have to turn it on every time I restart Windows. This
does not happen at the office where my computer has XP professional (I
run XP home edition at home). Is there a setting to change to stop this
from happening?

 

[Malke]

Windows firewall does not stay on. I have set the firewall to be on
many many times, but for some reason every so often I will get a
Security Center alert saying that the firewall is off. Also, it does
not stay on after a restart - I have to turn it on every time I
restart Windows. This does not happen at the office where my computer
has XP professional (I run XP home edition at home). Is there a
setting to change to stop this from happening?

Please see my answer to your other post. Search on your name.

Malke