Re: How do I turn the Windows Firewall off?

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On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 03:45:58 -0700, "Rock" <Rock@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Cloudchaser the Red Wolf furry" wrote

How do I, temporarily of course and when offline, make sure the Windows
Firewall is turned off? I need to know because the creator of my
duplicate image detector told me "I know some firewall freezes
when overloaded. And VisiPics + P2P can very certainly overload a firewall"

If you aren't online, there's no traffic, thus nothing to overload a
firewall. So there's no need to disable XP's firewall in such case.

OTOH, if you do suffer traffic overload, then you were not as
"offline" as you thought you were (hello, WiFi?) and it would be a
good thing you had the firewall to jump on the grenade.

BTW, the limitation your advisor's referring to, may be that which is
built into SP2, at a level where the firewall state is not relevant.

SP2 limits network connections (I think it's "pending" connections,
i.e. at the initial handshaking level) as a way of braking malware
spread (specifically, the kind of pure network worm clickless attacks
that can otherwise go global in a few minutes).

I haven't found this limitation to have any adverse effect on my
systems, but it may limit the volume of concurrent access where
peer-2-peer file sharing is concerned - that's why I think it is this
he's referring to, rather than firewalls (and XP's firewall in
particular) as such.



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