firewall is off everytime I reboot

[bophil]

Maybe it's a coincidence, but the day after one of Microsoft's
humongous updates downloaded and installed itself, Windows Firewall
alerted me that it was turned off. So . . . I turned it back on. Next
restart, same thing. I've installed no new software. XP auto update
is turned on. Norton Internet Security auto update is turned on.
Norton Personal Firewall is turned off.

I bought two new computers with XP Pro installed. First four months,
everything worked just like it was supposed to. About a month before
the Firewall behavior began, which, incidentally, began on both
computers the day after after an XP update, one of the computer's hard
drives began continuing to run when I put it in standby. The other one
behaves as it should. I've had to change the first one to hibernate
when I push the power button if I want the hard drive to shut off. A
minor issue, I guess. I'm much more concerned about the firewall
turning itself off all the time.

NAV reports no viruses. Ad-Aware and SpyBot have cleaned all the crap
off they know about. Nothing else is going on to suggest a problem.

Any ideas?

[jackie]

"bophil" wrote:

> Maybe it's a coincidence, but the day after one of Microsoft's
> humongous updates downloaded and installed itself, Windows Firewall
> alerted me that it was turned off. So . . . I turned it back on. Next
> restart, same thing. I've installed no new software. XP auto update
> is turned on. Norton Internet Security auto update is turned on.
> Norton Personal Firewall is turned off.
>
> I bought two new computers with XP Pro installed. First four months,
> everything worked just like it was supposed to. About a month before
> the Firewall behavior began, which, incidentally, began on both
> computers the day after after an XP update, one of the computer's hard
> drives began continuing to run when I put it in standby. The other one
> behaves as it should. I've had to change the first one to hibernate
> when I push the power button if I want the hard drive to shut off. A
> minor issue, I guess. I'm much more concerned about the firewall
> turning itself off all the time.
>
> NAV reports no viruses. Ad-Aware and SpyBot have cleaned all the crap
> off they know about. Nothing else is going on to suggest a problem.
>
> Any ideas?
> no but im having the same problem and system restore is also turned off every day so if you do find out the problem id love to know as im considering reinstalling everything as its driving me nuts

[Johannes]

I also have similar problem - the the firewall changes to off after shutdown
AND also before that that.

I use Windows XP Home sp1, Norton Internet Security with firewall off
(otherwise I have problems with Internet access and e-mails) + Microsoft
AntiSpyware. In my modem/router the firewall is set on.

How do I solve this big problem?

"bophil" wrote:

> Maybe it's a coincidence, but the day after one of Microsoft's
> humongous updates downloaded and installed itself, Windows Firewall
> alerted me that it was turned off. So . . . I turned it back on. Next
> restart, same thing. I've installed no new software. XP auto update
> is turned on. Norton Internet Security auto update is turned on.
> Norton Personal Firewall is turned off.
>
> I bought two new computers with XP Pro installed. First four months,
> everything worked just like it was supposed to. About a month before
> the Firewall behavior began, which, incidentally, began on both
> computers the day after after an XP update, one of the computer's hard
> drives began continuing to run when I put it in standby. The other one
> behaves as it should. I've had to change the first one to hibernate
> when I push the power button if I want the hard drive to shut off. A
> minor issue, I guess. I'm much more concerned about the firewall
> turning itself off all the time.
>
> NAV reports no viruses. Ad-Aware and SpyBot have cleaned all the crap
> off they know about. Nothing else is going on to suggest a problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>

[jackie]

ok so were all having problems and so far no help and this morning as i tried
to turn the fire wall back on as i do each morning its now telling me due to
unspecified problem can not turn on so things are getting worse so i thought
ok time to reinstall but when i put my reinstall disk in it told me i could
not reinstall as i now had a newer version of windows the sp2 pack im
assuming so ill wait another day or until i have 8 or so hours to spare to
reinstall so please if any one can help

"Johannes" wrote:

> I also have similar problem - the the firewall changes to off after shutdown
> AND also before that that.
>
> I use Windows XP Home sp1, Norton Internet Security with firewall off
> (otherwise I have problems with Internet access and e-mails) + Microsoft
> AntiSpyware. In my modem/router the firewall is set on.
>
> How do I solve this big problem?
>
> "bophil" wrote:
>
> > Maybe it's a coincidence, but the day after one of Microsoft's
> > humongous updates downloaded and installed itself, Windows Firewall
> > alerted me that it was turned off. So . . . I turned it back on. Next
> > restart, same thing. I've installed no new software. XP auto update
> > is turned on. Norton Internet Security auto update is turned on.
> > Norton Personal Firewall is turned off.
> >
> > I bought two new computers with XP Pro installed. First four months,
> > everything worked just like it was supposed to. About a month before
> > the Firewall behavior began, which, incidentally, began on both
> > computers the day after after an XP update, one of the computer's hard
> > drives began continuing to run when I put it in standby. The other one
> > behaves as it should. I've had to change the first one to hibernate
> > when I push the power button if I want the hard drive to shut off. A
> > minor issue, I guess. I'm much more concerned about the firewall
> > turning itself off all the time.
> >
> > NAV reports no viruses. Ad-Aware and SpyBot have cleaned all the crap
> > off they know about. Nothing else is going on to suggest a problem.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >