If you are running ZoneAlarm, you should disable Windows' Firewall - you don't need both and IMHO ZoneAlarm is much the better of the two. AnnaSummers
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From: David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 2006/11/27 Mon AM 11:58:06 EST
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Spybot Question
On 24 Nov 2006 at 21:15, Lewis M Russakov wrote:
> I am using Spybot-Search & Destroy v 1.4 and every time I run a scan it
> keeps detecting a problem called "Microsoft
> WindowsSecurityCenter.Firewall Disable".
> Expanding that entry there are two Registry setting sublistings as
> follows:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\windowsfirewall\standardpr
> ofile\enablefirewall!=dword:1
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\windowsfirewall\domainpro
> file\enablefirewall!=dword:1
>
> I don't know what this all means and I do not want to fool with the
> Registry. I always click on "Fix the problem", but it comes back on the
> next scan.
>
> It doesn't appear that my MS firewall has been disabled., but I am
> confused by the statement near the end "enabledfirewall". Does that mean
> that the firewall was disabled and somehow Microsoft enabled it?
>
> Should I be concerned since I also run Zone Alarm?
If the Windows Firewall was "normally" enabled, those two registry entries
should each be 1. (In the programming languages most commonly used by
Windows programmers, "!=" means "does not equal" and "dword:" means typical
32-bit integer value.
My guess is that some part of running Zone Alarm means that this value
gets set to something else, either zero (disable Windows firewall) or
perhaps some special value which the Windows Security Center knows means
"ZoneAlarm is taking care of firewll duties" -- probably the latter.
David Gillett
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