Solve : Firewall in XP ??

1.	Solve : Firewall in XP ??
Answer» Does Windows XP Pro have its own firewall? Does Office that is part of Windows XP also have its own firewall? We use Trend Micro P-Cillin for our personal Firewall. We have DSL. Could all these firewalls be slowing down my reading & deleting emails ?Windows XP has a firewall ONLY if you have service Pack two installed... Also... About how fast your compter is running... How much RAM do you have? [glb]Flame[/glb]I have 512 MB RAM.maybe your isp is the cause.......run a system scan for bugs......spysweeper........webroot.com ......Actually Flame, Windows XP comes with the firewall at any LEVEL. It is just automatically turned on with SP2 where with all other levels the default setting was off. Quote Does Windows XP Pro have its own firewall? Does Office that is part of Windows XP also have its own firewall? We use Trend Micro PC-Cillin for our personal Firewall. We have DSL. Could all these firewalls be slowing down my reading & deleting emails ? I would make sure that your anti-virus is scanning all of your emails first of all, and then do an on-line anti-virus check with two on-line scanners such as Symantec and Panda as I have found that my own AV missed infected emails in the past. If you have a lot of Office Programs and Image intensive programs as well then you should consider adding another 512Mb of RAM at least. With only Outlook Express running I can open 40 emails at a time, which I had to do to convert email to .eml from a French system to then place in .dbx folders on an English system. It only takes seconds to open 40 Emails on this system so there MUST be a fault somewhere on your own system. Opening emails is pretty much instant, and so is deleting them, when things are running normally. Quote ...Could all these firewalls be slowing down my reading & deleting emails ? BOB: GOOD question! I've read that having more than one software firewall program running at the same time creates problems, because each one steps on the other's toes. The same is true for having more than one anti-virus program running simultaneously on the same machine (or so i've read, but one cannot believe everything one reads on the Internet). If this is true, then disabling one or the other firewall might solve your problem. To disable the XP firewall, do this: 1. Click Start > Control Panel. 2. In Control Panel, click Network and Internet Connections > Windows Firewall. 3. In Windows Firewall, choose the General tab, then select "Off (not RECOMMENDED)" and click OK, and then close the Network Connections window. Try this out to see if it helps.I have a problem where the C:\Windows\System32, ntoskrnl.exe, user32.dll & shell32.dll files are reported as having changed by AVG. I expanded three new files and ran AVG again and they were all labelled ok. After a while I decided to check again and all three have changed again! So I decided to change the firewall. I uninstalled Sygate and turned on the Windows firewall. I then installed the latest Zone Alarm Free firewall and have just noticed that the Windows Firewall has been automatically turned off by installing Zone Alarm. Just thought that you might like to know. Any idea why the three files keep on changing Doc?

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Does Windows XP Pro have its own firewall?

Does Office that is part of Windows XP also have its own firewall?

We use Trend Micro P-Cillin for our personal Firewall.
We have DSL.

Could all these firewalls be slowing down my reading & deleting emails ?Windows XP has a firewall ONLY if you have service Pack two installed... Also... About how fast your compter is running... How much RAM do you have?

[glb]Flame[/glb]I have 512 MB RAM.maybe your isp is the cause.......run a system scan for bugs......spysweeper........webroot.com ......Actually Flame, Windows XP comes with the firewall at any LEVEL. It is just automatically turned on with SP2 where with all other levels the default setting was off. Quote

Does Windows XP Pro have its own firewall?

Does Office that is part of Windows XP also have its own firewall?

We use Trend Micro PC-Cillin for our personal Firewall.
We have DSL.

Could all these firewalls be slowing down my reading & deleting emails ?

I would make sure that your anti-virus is scanning all of your emails first of all, and then do an on-line anti-virus check with two on-line scanners such as Symantec and Panda as I have found that my own AV missed infected emails in the past.

If you have a lot of Office Programs and Image intensive programs as well then you should consider adding another 512Mb of RAM at least.

With only Outlook Express running I can open 40 emails at a time, which I had to do to convert email to .eml from a French system to then place in .dbx folders on an English system.

It only takes seconds to open 40 Emails on this system so there MUST be a fault somewhere on your own system.

Opening emails is pretty much instant, and so is deleting them, when things are running normally.
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...Could all these firewalls be slowing down my reading & deleting emails ?

BOB:

GOOD question! I've read that having more than one software firewall program running at the same time creates problems, because each one steps on the other's toes. The same is true for having more than one anti-virus program running simultaneously on the same machine (or so i've read, but one cannot believe everything one reads on the Internet).

If this is true, then disabling one or the other firewall *might* solve your problem. To disable the XP firewall, do this:

1. Click Start > Control Panel.

2. In Control Panel, click Network and Internet Connections > Windows Firewall.

3. In Windows Firewall, choose the General tab, then
select "Off (not RECOMMENDED)" and click OK, and then close the Network Connections window.

Try this out to see if it helps.I have a problem where the C:\Windows\System32, ntoskrnl.exe, user32.dll & shell32.dll files are reported as having changed by AVG.

I expanded three new files and ran AVG again and they were all labelled ok.

After a while I decided to check again and all three have changed again!

So I decided to change the firewall. I uninstalled Sygate and turned on the Windows firewall. I then installed the latest Zone Alarm Free firewall and have just noticed that the Windows Firewall has been automatically turned off by installing Zone Alarm.

Just thought that you might like to know.

Any idea why the three files keep on changing Doc?

Solve : Firewall in XP ??

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