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Windows Firewall turns off

polybear · 2010-11-22 19:18:08

Hi, I've just unistalled Norton using the Norton uninstaller tool and then installed Microsoft Security Essentials, making sure the Windows firewall was enabled. However, since doing so I've noticed that I sometimes get a warning up just after startup to warn me the Windows Firewall is turned off, and I've had to manually…

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forgotmyname Posts: 32,946 Forumite

10 December 2010 at 11:27PM

Windows checking to see if its running before its had a chance to actually load it, Quite normal on slower machines
and ones that dont get shutdown properly.

When my HD is almost full i get the same FW & AV are not running. Give it time to load and the warning icons vanish.

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