Windows Firewall

[muppet rebecca]

Hello I'm going to try and tell you as much as I can but I will warn you in advance it is father strange. Firstly elt em tell you it's windows xp sp3 and I have all the latest updates.

 

Now it randomely started for no reason but windows firewall has started to block programns, itself and even windows on the off occasion. I have scanned it for malware, rootkits and viruses all of which came back negative. Even when the firewall is switched off it still blocks programns and comes up with the windows firewall blocking thingy majig.

I've put all my programns in exceptions to no avail. It's not any certain programn although skype is a regular closely followed by safari.

Any ides would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance.

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What other security products do you have installed?

[theitman]

Try Using another program

 

What about using another firewall, just something free if you dont want to pay for it. You could use Comodo firewall free edition, or pay the money and get another firewall but be careful on what you pick. Also depends what antivirus you run. If you want to pay money, i would recommend Bullguard Internet Security over any other security on the market, and trust me I've tried and tested them all. If you need any more help then please send me an email at (address removed) :confused:

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itman - the happy spammers will grab your email addy on a public forum, hopefully admin will remove it for you.

[aeshwilson12]

When Windows XP was originally shipped in October 2001, it included a limited firewall called "Internet Connection Firewall". It was disabled by default due to concerns with backward compatibility, and the configuration screens were buried away in network configuration screens that many users never looked at. As a result, it was rarely used. In mid-2003, the Blaster worm attacked a large number of Windows machines, taking advantage of flaws in the RPC Windows service.[1] Several months later, the Sasser worm did something similar. The ongoing prevalence of these worms through 2004 resulted in unpatched machines being infected within a matter of minutes.[1] Because of these incidents, as well as other criticisms that Microsoft was not being active in protecting customers from threats, Microsoft decided to significantly improve both the functionality and the interface of Windows XP's built-in firewall, and rebrand it as Windows Firewall.

Security log capabilities are included, which can record IP addresses and other data relating to connections originating from the home or office network or the Internet. It can record both dropped packets and successful connections. This can be used, for instance, to track every time a computer on the network connects to a website. This security log is not enabled by default; the administrator must enable it