RE: Firewall in XP SP2 -- Microsoft Goofed again -- PCTECH

Subject: RE: [PCTECH] Firewall in XP SP2 -- Microsoft Goofed again
From: "Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:07:13 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / David Gibbs
> Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 1:12 AM
>
> Looks like Microsoft goofed again ... turns out the firewall in XP SP2
> can be turned OFF by application code.
>
> PCWorld has an article
> (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117380,00.asp) that indicates
> that the 3rd party firewall providers automatically turn off the windows
> firewall when their products are installed and turn it back on when the
> product is uninstalled.

Don't you think Microsoft has it all figured out?  Only the good guys know
how to do this.

<sigh>

db

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