fWindows firewall

Since I receved a virus email i cannot set my firewall to on. When I reboot
it allways defaults to off and I have to manually turn it on every time. any
ideas.
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royboy

royboy Wrote:
> Since I receved a virus email i cannot set my firewall to on. When I
> reboot
> it allways defaults to off and I have to manually turn it on every
> time. any
> ideas.
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> royboy

Do you have a third party firewall running? It could be that the third
party firewall automatically disables the Windows Firewall at startup.


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Evolution54

=?Utf-8?B?cm95Ym95?= wrote:
>
> Since I receved a virus email i cannot set my firewall to on. When I reboot
> it allways defaults to off and I have to manually turn it on every time. any
> ideas.

Next time do not install the virus.



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"royboy" <royboy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C0D3F58F-8022-49D4-BB37-0413F826A62A@microsoft.com...
> Since I receved a virus email i cannot set my firewall to on. When I
> reboot
> it allways defaults to off and I have to manually turn it on every time.
> any
> ideas.
> --
> royboy

In addition to a third party firewall, some anti-virus programs will also
turn off the Windows XP firewall. Did you perhaps install and new
anti-virus program?

Don

Thanks Don, Yes, since you mention it I did not check whether the firewall
was on when I installed my anti virus program until I received a virus which
the program found and said that it had deleted, but it continually kept
popping up that it found a virus and blocked it, this happend every few
seconds as if the registry was writing email and sending them and the only
way I could stop it is by setting the firewall to on every time I booted. I
think I still have it in my registry so I am thinking of formatting my hard
drive which I dont really want to do.
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royboy


"Don MI <>" wrote:

>
> "royboy" <royboy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C0D3F58F-8022-49D4-BB37-0413F826A62A@microsoft.com...
> > Since I receved a virus email i cannot set my firewall to on. When I
> > reboot
> > it allways defaults to off and I have to manually turn it on every time.
> > any
> > ideas.
> > --
> > royboy
>
> In addition to a third party firewall, some anti-virus programs will also
> turn off the Windows XP firewall. Did you perhaps install and new
> anti-virus program?
>
> Don
>
>
>

thanks Evo, I only have an anti virus program maybe that has an inbuilt one.
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royboy


"Evolution54" wrote:

>
> royboy Wrote:
> > Since I receved a virus email i cannot set my firewall to on. When I
> > reboot
> > it allways defaults to off and I have to manually turn it on every
> > time. any
> > ideas.
> > --
> > royboy
>
> Do you have a third party firewall running? It could be that the third
> party firewall automatically disables the Windows Firewall at startup.
>
>
> --
> Evolution54
>

Thanks plato. I will give that a try.
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royboy


"Plato" wrote:

> =?Utf-8?B?cm95Ym95?= wrote:
> >
> > Since I receved a virus email i cannot set my firewall to on. When I reboot
> > it allways defaults to off and I have to manually turn it on every time. any
> > ideas.
>
> Next time do not install the virus.
>
>
>
> --
> http://www.bootdisk.com/
>
>
>

May I ask which anti-virus you're running?
I only ask because I recently replaced Norton anti-virus with Kaspersky. I
learned very quickly that I need to disable anti-virus before any
installation that requires writing to the registery,
Dusty

"royboy" <royboy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F85615D0-D06B-4FB2-9002-F50416AAE158@microsoft.com...
> Thanks Don, Yes, since you mention it I did not check whether the firewall
> was on when I installed my anti virus program until I received a virus
which