Vista - Vista Advanced Firewall

In Vista Ultimate I seem to have enabled in some way the advanced firewall.

Does anyone know how to go back to the basic firewall - i.e. disable the
advanced one

Having done that, how indeed to you actually enable the advanced one, as I
do not remember doing it in the first place

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Regards

Ray

"RayG" <noone@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A0B90644-A52E-45CC-A7C4-4BEDC53E3593@xxxxxxFirstly I think you are a little confused.

There is only one Vista Firewall.

The difference is the level of control.

The Basic control is via "Start\Programs\Accessories\Control Panel\Windows
Firewall"

The Advanced control is via "Start\Programs\Administrative Tools\Windows
Firewall with Advanced Security"

The Advanced bit is basically allowing much more granular control. Basic is
just that. If you like Basic provides a selection of common or preset
rules.

Nick /////

Nick ///// wrote:Nick,

No, not confused - once you have the advanced one activated it seem you
cannot go back to the basic version or at least I have not been able to find
a way so far

How do I get rid you the yellow banner an allowed the greyed out options to
function?

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Regards

Ray

You get that if you are behind a server and on a domain profile.

You are still either confused... or you've been hit with malware that is
controlling your firewall.



RayG wrote:

open the start menu and type this word: firewall.
you'll see these 2 items:
- Windows Firewall
- Windows Firewall with advanced security

you can modify the firewall's rules using the basic interface or the
advanced interface.

Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote:No, No malware and not connected to a domain

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Regards

Ray

BillD wrote:No sorry you cannot turn off the firewall if it is in advanced mode from the
basic screen

See image attached to my reply to Nick///

What I want to know is how to turn off advanced mode and conversly how to
turn it on outside of being connected to a domain.

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Regards

Ray

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In the Network and Sharing Center is the network Public, Private, or Domain?
If it's Public or Domain there's your problem. If it's Private then try
running secpol.msc. Change all of the settings in the Private profile to Not
configured then reboot. If this doesn't fix it then it is very likely you do
have some malware installed.

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Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/

Kerry Brown wrote:Kerry,

Ah! I think you may have hit the nail on the head.

I have VMware installed in this system and it has its IP addresses in the
"Public" space and no matter what I try to do I cannot get them to stay in
the "Private" space. Is there a trick in Vista that I am missing?

Network Properties shows

192.168.10 - PC
192.168.102 - VMware
192.169.109 - VMware

and my ethernet adapter is listed in both private and public.

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Regards

Ray

"RayG" <noone@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C321C0E9-751F-46B4-B4B2-10B4CD9C9F1D@xxxxxxOpen up "Firewall with Advanced Control"

Select top item in left hand pane and the central pane should be titled
"Windows Firewall With Advanced Security on Local Computer" (Note the Local)
Below this the central window should be "Overview"
In this you should see 3 profile with one marked as "Active".

Which is your Active profile? For a normal home lan and router setup your
profile should/will be "Private"

On any profile there are 3 active lines: Normal default values are:
o Windows Firewall Is On
o Inbound connections that do match rule are blocked
o Outbound connections that do match rule are allowed

If you deviate from these then you could say that you have enabled the
Advanced Firewall.

Last item on this central pane below the profiles is a hotlink "Windows
Firewall Properties"
Following this will take you to the control that affect the 3 active lines
mentioned above. ie. you want:

o Firewall state ON
o Inbound Block - default
o Outbound Allow - default

Open Up the Normal Windows Firewall Control and you want to set: (do/check
in order listed)

Advance Tab - Check ALL network connections listed are ticked
Exceptions - At LEAST Core Networking and Network Discovery should be ticked
(you may have others)
General - You should be On or Even Off

Going back to Profiles. If you are on an Active Domain profile, or Public
profile then I as yet have no experience of these. Certainly in Domain
profile then the level of control you have is determined by the domain
set-up/controller, be that a person or a machine or remote administration.

If nothing else hopefully the above will give you some idea as to what most
home set-ups see.

Nick /////