Access Connections and Firewalls

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fhaber · #1 Post by **fhaber** » Wed May 31, 2006 11:13 am

ThinkVantage on this X60 seems by default to want to enable the XP2 firewall, even though the free McAfee/AOL one (I know, I know) is hot. It should look. You can fix this.

(Does anyone from Lenovo ever read these boards? Are there Lenovo boards for this sort of comment?)

#2 Post by **jdhurst** » Wed May 31, 2006 12:06 pm

Look in the properties of the Access Connections profile, under Advanced, under Network Security. Uncheck Use Windows Firewall. I use the Symantec Corporate Firewall and have no issues.
... JD Hurst

fhaber · #3 Post by **fhaber** » Wed May 31, 2006 1:09 pm

jdhurst wrote:Uncheck Use Windows Firewall.... JD Hurst

Yes, I'd found that. I posted because the user shouldn't have to dig for this stuff, and would have to go to Control Panel | security to see the conflict.

Not that two firewalls are as poisonous as two active antispy or antivirus agents, but....

krcmd · #4 Post by **krcmd** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:08 pm

I'd like to have my default profile (1st prob. = I don't know how to make a particular profile active at boot) without firewall or antivirus. Is there a way to have the firewall and antivirus active only with a particular profile?

Thanks

Ken Cohen

#5 Post by **jdhurst** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:42 pm

Firewalls and AntiVirus are independent of connection profiles (which are, for the most part, settings on the TCP/IP properties). So while the Firewall setting is profile dependent (and I much dislike that). the AntiVirus setting is not even part of Access Connections that I can see. ... JD Hurst

krcmd · #6 Post by **krcmd** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:33 am

thank you.

I was wondering if there was a way to avoid launching antivirus, etc., when booting, then add them as applications to launch with a specific ac profile.

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