Re: Windows Firewall disabled after reboot

You are far better off with McAfee's firewall than Windows FW. McAfee's
Security Center should also be given permission to control Windows Security
Center when it asks.
You may have to uninstall your McAfee products the "hard" way to get them to
reinstall correctly.
Look here:
http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=42709&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Home SP2
P4 dual HT @ 3.0ghz, 1.0gb RAM, 160gb HD
"Erix" <notvalid@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OEIbW9lSFHA.2384@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> It seem to me that we have a slightly different problem, DSG. I would
> indeed
> try to reinstall (in Safe Mode if possible) the McAfee package if I was
> you.
> Not an easy task though, since large programs (AV's for sure) use to leave
> a
> lot of 'stuff' behind in the registry, things that are not getting removed
> during the uninstall process, and that may create problems later on. I
> spent
> several hours myself, manually cleaning the registry after changing from
> EZ
> Armor AV to Avast AV, but I'm still not sure to what extent I may have
> succeeded. Although there is a lot of information available on the
> Internet
> about these issues, 'cleansing' the registry this way is a risky
> preoccupation, which I don't recommend it to anyone with less than
> reasonably good insight.
>
> Eric
>
>
> "DSG" <jgillig1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
> news:gMfbe.7968$XF3.1214@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>I have to manually turn on McAfee Virus Scan after every reboot.
>> Did not start until I updated Windows Media Player to Ver 10 and
>> installed
>> Easy CD Creator.
>> The only security I have running on my Win XP 2002 SP2 is a McAfee
>> Security Center. When I installed Mc's firewall, I turned off XP's ICF
>> firewall.
>>
>> So it isn't an interference with other security programs. McAfee says it
>> is either a faulty installation or a problem with the browser (IE in my
>> case). And that I should uninstall and reinstall Virus Scan.
>>
>> Seems it is more the WMP and Roxio's CD Creator that changed things.
>> I tried to change Virus settings in Windows Services, but it doesn't
>> "stick."
>> DSG
>> ...........................................................................
>> "Erix" <notvalid@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:O%23oPPqdSFHA.3188@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Windows Firewall must be turned on 'manually' after each reboot,
>>> changing
>>> the settings to 'ON' won't stick. EZ Armor Firewall is also running on
>>> this
>>> machine (XP Pro SP2), and so is a newly installed AVAST antivirus.
>>> Obviously, something is 'shutting down' the Windows Firewall, but is
>>> that
>>> a
>>> permitted/acceptable behavior or should I start worrying...?
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>


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