Any way to get rid of those annoying tool tip type balloons that pop-up to tell me i'm connected, my firewall isn't turned on or i have no virus software? i've looked everywhere on both my machines one xp home and the other xp pro.
View 7 RepliesMy Windows Firewall automatically turns off every time i reboot. Is this because Norton Antivirus has its own internal firewall? If it is because of Norton, is it ok to leave the Windows Firewall turned off? I'm concerned that my computer isn't adequately secured.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI continually have my norton Internet Security popping up alerting me that my firewall is turned off.What is causing this to turn off?How can I prevent the windows firewall from turning off? Is Norton running a Firewall in addition to the windows firewall?
View 1 Replies View RelatedJust recently every time i boot up or reboot, my windows firewall is turned off. I get the balloon in the bottom right of my screen to fix it, which i do....no problem! But when i boot up again, it switched off?
View 3 Replies View RelatedJust experienced a very strange situation. We have several hundred XP clients on an NT Domain. We disable windows firewall. Over the weekend we upgraded our NT 4 Domain to Windows 2003 Mixed Mode Active Directory. We are now seeing today and yesterday some machines have the windows firewall enabled. We discoverd the problem due to an older legacy application we have had stopped working. The application was working yesterday (2 days after the upgrade) but today it was not. The machines experiencing the problem are located in seperate office and seperate departments. so far we have seen only about 15 with the firewall enabled. As we just upgraded we dont have any GPO's in place that would enable this. We dont have any other automated
customization tools that were configured to do this either.Is there any log file or any way to determine when/by who the firewall was enabled. The users of the machines dont have admin rights so we know it was
not them.
In my Local Area Connection Properties, I turned off the Internet Connection Firewall, but I have symptoms of it being on, like, unable to host Warcraft 3 games, slow download speeds, etc etc, and even an error that say it is on while I'm patching World of Warcraft, is there a way to fix this?
View 2 Replies View Relatedmy security center (from control panel firewall) says that the firewall isn't turned on (in fact, it is currently turned off)and i have no way of clicking on the "on" option because the screen is basically unchangeable.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have XP Firewall turned off by Group policy, yet it still pops up and me about blocking certain programs. Mainly I see it on DPMS.EXE right after installing Novell. I go to control panel and check the firewall and it says it is turned off by GPO.
View 3 Replies View Relatedevery time im turning on my xp firewall within seconds it was turned off. i just encountered with total xp security problem i.e, a fake software. i have a file named abhhqq.exe but it can't be deleted, i think b'cos of this only problem still persist.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWindows firewall Just like magic, much of the text on my computer turned from black to blue. For example, all the text I've typed in to label my photos is now all blue, it was black when I originally typed it. All the text I typed in under my document files had turned to blue as well. Not all the text on the computer has turned to blue, just mostly in documents and photos. I have no idea how this happened. Does anybody know how I can change it back to the original color, black. I really have tried everything I can think of and so far nothing works.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI shut off my firewall on my xp pro computer but when I look at the security centre, the green light is still on, indicating that the firewall is still on. This is a new computer that was set up before I got it and I know on my old one, the red light would be on when the firewall is turned off.
View 13 Replies View RelatedIam anable to open any MS websites either with IE7 or FireFox. Able to open other websites. I have tried adding "s"to the "http"protocol,but no luck. Then went to internet options and unticked the "tsl"option in Advanced tab,again no luck! Thus iam not able to manually download updates.The XP pro has SP2 and SP3 installed. All the drivers are in place.To add to my woes ,SAS PRO and MBAM are not getting updates too!To survive i have installed AVG 8 Anti-virus and it too is not getting updated! I have turned off the windows firewall and the Comodo Firewall Pro. The KIS 2009 disk is not installing as it is not being accessed by the dvd drive( please see my post in "General security"). When i run the diagnostic tool--i get the message that the PC is unable to access the FTP and the http and https are fine!Please ask for any further info' which i've failed to mention
View 14 Replies View RelatedOkay, guys, you've all been great in helping with my computer issues. One more and I think I'll be out of your hair for a while at least. The situation is I've got a computer running XP, but the hard drive is a little too small. I had a larger hard drive in my 98 machine and I've slaved that drive and installed it in this computer. I've moved everything I need to the C drive temporarily and I want to reformat the D drive to wipe out everything on it. Problem is, I know how to do it from a DOS prompt but XP doesn't seem to have one. How do I format this drive (mainly want to get rid of the operating system)?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am using eTRust EZ firewall and just recently started having problems with it and the effect on my pc. First, it wouldn't let me select allow or ask under the access internet or trusted column under the program control. Now, it won't let me access the internet if the program control is turned to low, medium, or high. The only way for anything to get to the internet is if the setting is turned off
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy firewall settings are greyed out and a banner says some functions controlled by group policy but I have a home computer and no network administrator. I tried resetting the firewall setting and it didnt seem to work
View 4 Replies View RelatedI connect to the internet thru a router with a built in firewall.(turned on) I am also running a software firewall with comodo. Do I need the comodo firewall Every new update version of the comodo firewall seems to mess one thing or another up on my old winXP machine.
Windows XP Home running McAfee Security Center, which is not managing Security Center, and McAfee Personal Firewall is not installed.All Windows Critical Updates are applied.Windows Security Center says the Windows Firewall is off, Windows Firewall says it is on.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a new system at home which I am getting ready to roll out. I have always used Norton Security on all my PCs prior to using XP Pro. This new system has XP Pro. Should I , or maybe should I say can I run both Norton and XPs firewall with no problems Don't want to keep paying for annual subscription updates to Norton, if I don't have to
View 7 Replies View RelatedMy XP firewall needs to be re-activated each time I re-boot my system and/or have a work around for it short of un-installing sp2 and re-installing
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have Windows XP and have the windows firewall on. I also have Norton 2005 Systemworks. Funny thing happened, I turned off the windows firewall under control panel, windows firewall. But when I open control panel, security center, it says there is a firewall on. I don't beleive I have a firewall with Norton Systemworks
View 3 Replies View Relatedeverything on the desktop is turned upside down, but it seems to be operating in the same manner. The mouse cursor moves in the opposite direction to which I direct it. My laptop is an Acer TravelMate 254LC_DT.
View 6 Replies View RelatedTurned my laptop on the other day and my screen has gone upside down,
View 6 Replies View Related"you have JavaScript turned off " this message turned up once. I get pictures in the email or in programs and I get a big white squre with a little stamp in the upper left corner. is there some way to get the picture? I do not know what javascript is or how to turn it on.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHow do I know if I have javascript and how do I know if it is turned on?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI just installed IE 8 on my notebook (WinXPsp3) and enable "SmartScreen Filter." However, when I exit IE 8 and then re-enter IE 8, the "SmartScreen Filter" is OFF.Someone said it should always be ON.
Does anyone know why mine is turning OFF when I exit IE 8? Is that somethihg that happens with notebooks?
Any suggestions on how to keep "SmartScreen Filter" always turned ON?
when trying to watch videos on some sights i am asked download flash player i cant do this as i get the message you have java script turned off . i have looked in internet options and security but cant solve the problem .
View 1 Replies View RelatedI heard a computer show today where the host was saying you should restart XP after three days or so because it slows down, gets buggy, ect. Yet I had heard it said you could leave in on for weeks or months.... which is correct?
View 6 Replies View RelatedMacAfee automatically updated and said it needed to restart. So I hit restart as nothing was running at the time. When the computer tried to restart it took FOREVER, at least 5 minutes. When it finally did come up, none of the links work. I treid to get into System Restore, it said System Restore had been turned off. News to me I never turn System Restore off. No access to the internet. Go to printers it shows no printers installed. Most programs, if you try to run them they either don't open, or open and close abruptly, or with McAfee it opens with nothing inside the box. Or if you try to do something like turn the System Restore on, the program stops responding. I actually did a registry edit to turn it on, but it still won't let me set a new restore point, and it says there are no old restore points. Basically the computer is totally unusable.So now I boot in SAFE MODE. Doesn't do much for me but allows me to look around. So I reboot in SAFE MODE Directory Services which says the drive is clean and the computer now works great in this Directory Services mode.
View 2 Replies View Relatedjust did a Disk Cleanup and noticed all my files name in My Documents have two different color font. Original black and Blue.what are those blue font mean?
View 10 Replies View RelatedHi all running Xp pro sp2 on Athlon Xp2600 with 1gig ram. Recently all my icons have turned black , no pictures just a black square with the name below it . This effects desktop start menu etc. After a while icons on the task bar come back and the quick start ones reappear but none of the rest of them do ,no matter how long I leave the pc on for . Anyone any ideas how to fix this ?. BTW most of the icons were standard windows ones no custom jobs.
View 12 Replies View RelatedFor some strange reason every so often and usually when I start-up my keyboard turns into a set of hotkeys for Windows related programs. For example if I press 'F' it opens up the search feature, press 'M' and it opens up my computer etc.When I press ctrl+alt+del to open the task manager then close it the hotkeys stop for a second and start typing properly, however after a sentence or two they all become hotkeys again. I also noticed sometimes it does it and sometimes it doesn't, it's very random.I'm using Windows XP sp1. I don't know of anymore information which would be useful but any info is available on request.
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