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Firewall exceptions - "No firewall is on" Richard Fangnail 03-01-2007
Posted by Richard Fangnail on March 1, 2007, 11:56 pm
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I recently upgraded from XP SP1 to SP2 and changed from Norton AV 2006
to the latest AVG. I just started up and a balloon tip appeared that
said "No firewall is on."

I checked the Windows Security box and it said the firewall was on,
but some exceptions were on. Three of the exceptions were exe files
that start with avg. Should I changed that?

I looked through my AVG and saw no firewall properties although these
are mentioned in their help files.

I've been using it like this for a few days but this is the first time
I've seen that balloon tip.

Thanks.


Posted by Richard Fangnail on March 2, 2007, 12:22 am
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I found a lot of threads of people complaining about that balloon
tip, but they all had their own firewall. I've never had my own
firewall.



Posted by PA Bear on March 2, 2007, 12:37 pm
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Did you uninstall Norton (AV) via Add/Remove Programs? Did you then run the
removal tool
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039 ?

Did you enable the Windows Firewall?

What does Security Center have to say about the status of your AV and
Automatic Updates?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)


Richard Fangnail wrote:
> I recently upgraded from XP SP1 to SP2 and changed from Norton AV 2006
> to the latest AVG. I just started up and a balloon tip appeared that
> said "No firewall is on."
>
> I checked the Windows Security box and it said the firewall was on,
> but some exceptions were on. Three of the exceptions were exe files
> that start with avg. Should I changed that?
>
> I looked through my AVG and saw no firewall properties although these
> are mentioned in their help files.
>
> I've been using it like this for a few days but this is the first time
> I've seen that balloon tip.
>
> Thanks.


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