firewall keeps switching off!

atro1

Running xp home, every time I turn pc on firewall is disabled click on the warning red shield and turn the firewall back on. If I restart firewall is switched off again.
Its the standard M.S. firewall that comes with xp.
Any ideas suggestions please?

penrhyn

Are you up to date with microsoft updates?
Also have you got Norton on your PC or another firewall programme that my be switching it off?
Go into add/remove programmes and check.
I suggest you up date your antivirus, anti spyware definitions, run windows update, then start the PC in safe mode and run antivirus and antispyware. Make sure firewall is active and reboot.
Check firewall again.

Red_Rose_Exile

Its the standard M.S. firewall that comes with xp

?

Please, do yourself and your computer a favour. Get yourself a real firewall.

The phrase "chocolate fireguard" springs to mind when I hear XP firewall.

Download one of the many good free ones, such as Comodo or PC tools firewall


then, once installed, follow the instructions here to turn off firewall monitoring in Windows security center (centre)

atro1

downloaded comodo. Hope its not too complicated for me. Keeps telling me its learning.
Thanks Penryhn. ran spybot 41 errors shown deleted the lot!

MathewLisett

spybot is terrible.

go get zone labs security suite has award winning antivirus/ anti spyware protection, privacy protection firewall award winning etc etc

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MathewLisett wrote: »

spybot is terrible.

Why is it " terrible "?? ... I have used it for years, no problem, unlike Zone Labs stuff that is a nightmare.

MathewLisett

well if it couldnt sport any of the 400k of virus's and spyware on my cousins system... then its cant be any good what so ever.

48k of that amount were the basic spyware cookies....