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  3. August 2004

Firewall in XP SP2 -- Microsoft Goofed again

Looks like Microsoft goofed again ... turns out the firewall in XP SP2 can be turned OFF by application code.

PCWorld has an article (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117380,00.asp) that indicates that the 3rd party firewall providers automatically turn off the windows firewall when their products are installed and turn it back on when the product is uninstalled.

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