Win XP SP2 icon and firewall issues?

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JohnV · #1 Post by **JohnV** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 9:12 am

Ok I did the upgrade to Win XP SP2 and everything is good except for two things. I cant seem to find a way to get rid of the task bar icon for the windows wireless. The second thing is the SP2 firewall seems to be turning itself back on even though I disabled it on both my wireless and ethernet adapters.

Any Ideas?

John

JohnV · #2 Post by **JohnV** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 9:16 am

OK I think i found the reason that the firewall keeps coming back on. You have to unclick the enable button in the firewall advanced tab to keep them from coming back on.

ian · #3 Post by **ian** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:39 am

Perhaps a silly question, but why would anyone actually want to turn off the firewall? Stupidly I was under the impression this tended to protect the machine no?

mrbjr · #4 Post by **mrbjr** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:13 am

One would want to turn off the WinXP firewall if they are running a third party firewall.

ian · #5 Post by **ian** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 12:04 pm

Why? What possible difference could it make?

Leon · #6 Post by **Leon** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 12:29 pm

maybe because there is overhead and it is redundant? (I'm not sure that this is true, but it seems like a reasonable possibility).

mrbjr · #7 Post by **mrbjr** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 12:50 pm

It's like having two AV programs running at the same time, could cause conflicts! Sometimes more is not neccessarily better

JohnV · #8 Post by **JohnV** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 1:03 pm

Well there are a few reasons I wont run the firewall on XP or any software firewall on any of my machines. I am a network admin and I work at a location where we are suffiently protected from the outside world. Also at home I am setup in the same manner. My network is secure from outside attackers and from wireless hackers also. I find it annoying to run a software firewall on a machine since typically it blocks things that it should not. To me it is worthless and just causes more headaches than it is worth. If you network/machine if suffiently protected/patched you will never need a software firewall.

John

ian · #9 Post by **ian** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 1:15 pm

Ok - I'll take your 'collective' words for it...

#10 Post by **jdhurst** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 4:18 pm

Ian - I run Symantec Client Security 2.0 (Firewall and AntiVirus) and that product is so well advanced that Windows Firewall in SP2 turned itself off. So this works as it should on my SP2 laptop. ... JDHurst

Win XP SP2 icon and firewall issues?

Win XP SP2 icon and firewall issues?

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