XP Home SP2 Firewall problem

[Matt Barratt]

Hi,

upgraded to SP2 a week ago and went through the security
centre to enable the firewall, today I had to add a new
network connection and it says all the connections I have
are just 'Enabled', not 'Enabled,Firewalled'. When I
popped up the security centre it clearly says Firewall is
ON but it isn't. Anyway, manually turned firewall ON and
all was OK for a while but on rebooting it goes back
firewall disabled. I am also running ZoneAlarm Security
Suite which I ran before with no firewall issues - any
ideas?

Regards,

Matt

[David Beder [MSFT]]

It's possible that zone alarm is programatically disabling windows firewall.
You probably don't need to have both running.

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David
Microsoft Windows Networking
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"Matt Barratt" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
>
> upgraded to SP2 a week ago and went through the security
> centre to enable the firewall, today I had to add a new
> network connection and it says all the connections I have
> are just 'Enabled', not 'Enabled,Firewalled'. When I
> popped up the security centre it clearly says Firewall is
> ON but it isn't. Anyway, manually turned firewall ON and
> all was OK for a while but on rebooting it goes back
> firewall disabled. I am also running ZoneAlarm Security
> Suite which I ran before with no firewall issues - any
> ideas?
>
> Regards,
>
> Matt