Re: XP SP2 Firewall question

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From: Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\) (user_at_#notme.com)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:28:36 -0700

You need to turn off the Security Center Service. Open, Control Panel, open
Administrative Tools, open Services, scroll to Security Center, right click,
select Properties, under Startup Type on the General tab, select Disabled,
click apply and ok. 

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"Gordon" <GordonBP1@yahoo.invalid> wrote in message 
news:udB38nKgEHA.1196@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>I have EZ lite Firewall and eTrust EZ antivirus. If I turn off the SP2 
>firewall, I get the "Security alert" in the systray, even though the EZ 
>firewall is active. Is there any way round this?
>

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