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| Guest | Windows firewall won't stay on for more that 2 minutes!! I have an Acer Aspire 5103 running Windows Vista Premium and using Firefox. I have not downloaded a third party firewall. Every 2 minutes or so the red shield appears in the icon tray and when I click on it it tells me the firewall is deactivated. I activate it, it goes on and then two minutes later off again!!!! Help! |
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| Guest | Re: Windows firewall won't stay on for more that 2 minutes!! angieb50 wrote:
security suite (Norton Internet Security, Windows Live OneCare etc.)? What antivirus program are you using? The First Question Of Troubleshooting: what changed between the time things worked and the time they didn't? The Second Question of Windows Troubleshooting: what is the malware/virus status of the machine? If you think it is clean, what programs (and versions) did you use to determine this? Be sure the computer is clean: http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...moving_Malware Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com Don't Panic! | ||||||||||||
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| Guest | Re: Windows firewall won't stay on for more that 2 minutes!! "Malke" wrote:
use AVG (free) antivirus, Spyware Doctor and Ad-Aware. I run them frequently. As for what's happened, can't think of anything. Haven't downloaded anything new. Just normal Windows updates. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Guest | Re: Windows firewall won't stay on for more that 2 minutes!! angieb50 wrote:
you. If the machine is really clean, then look in Event Viewer for clues. Start>Run>eventvwr.msc [enter] Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com Don't Panic! | ||||||||||||
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| Guest | Re: Windows firewall won't stay on for more that 2 minutes!! "angieb50" <angieb50@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:B3216CF4-BA68-45AD-A042-011E50BDBA7A@xxxxxx
Most Acer's come with a trial version of Norton. If you activated the trial then decided to uninstall it the uninstall may not have been complete. In the Control Panel under Uninstall a Program do you have any Norton or Symantec products listed? Run services.msc and look to see if any Norton or Symantec services are running. -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: R&D http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Guest | Re: Windows firewall won't stay on for more that 2 minutes!! "Kerry Brown" wrote:
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| Guest | Re: Windows firewall won't stay on for more that 2 minutes!! "angieb50" <angieb50@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:96D2A388-36EC-413B-B8F7-44FC61EB3695@xxxxxx
the search list click on it. If you really want Start/Run then press the WinKey-R combination or look in All Programs/Accessories. I find the Start Search method much better than XP's Start/Run command. -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: R&D http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Guest | Re: Windows firewall won't stay on for more that 2 minutes!! "Malke" wrote:
have to find someone to do it although not easy where I am. Hard to find anything other than PCBox and all that sort of rubbish!!! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Guest | Re: Windows firewall won't stay on for more that 2 minutes!! "Kerry Brown" wrote:
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| Guest | Re: Windows firewall won't stay on for more that 2 minutes!! "angieb50" <angieb50@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:92BA10D5-CC94-498D-9425-17B643A11E12@xxxxxx
I'm not sure what you mean by no joy. You couldn't get services.msc to run or you did but there were no Norton or Symantec services running? -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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