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One of the lamest attempts at
a firewall I've seen in a long time. This little
thing that Microsoft threw in almost as an afterthought
serves little purpose but happens to be buried so deep
that most people wouldn't even know where to find the
stupid thing. Is it better than nothing, yes, but
not much better...so shut this off and get a real firewall,
check the Freeware Downloads
of this website to get a real firewall. Now on to
shutting this stupid thing off:
Go to the Control Panel and then to Network Connections...select
your network connection and you'll get something like
this:
Okay you get this Window
above and then you click Properties...just as a sidenote,
yes my computer has been on 6 days straight connected
to the internet and my connection is oh so nice.
Now back to disabling the firewall. Click on Properties
and you'll get here:
Now click on the advanced tab at the top and then uncheck
the "Protect my computer and network by limiting
or preventing access to this computer from the internet".
Once you do this Win XP's lame firewall will be off!
Good, now get a real firewall in the freeware section.
One other thing, don't think of running this firewall
and another software firewall. Two software firewalls
almost always cause conflicts with each other and never
really serve much of a purpose...they end up canceling
each other out in the end. You can have a hardware
firewall and a software firewall, but I'll write about
this in the future and which combo is best to use. |
