[pchelpers] Re: I run Spybot and get this:

Actually, I changed the 0 to a 1 and haven't seen it since, thanks all 
for the good advice

Don Bieber

Scott McNay wrote:

>Hi Don,
>
>Saturday, July 30, 2005, 8:51:23 AM, you wrote:
>
>DSn> Yes it does, very much so.
>
>DSn> Actually, I do have the Sygate Firewall running and XP repeated says I
>DSn> don't have a firewall, so I go to the box that I can check the place to
>DSn> say that I have a firewall running and I'll monitor it myself.
>
>DSn> Then a day later, the box will pop up and say that I don't have a
>DSn> firewall running. Even if I let the XP firewall run at the same time as
>DSn> Sygate, in a day or two a box will pop up saying that I don't have a
>DSn> firewall running.
>
>Spybot is trying to protect you by removing the flag that tells
>Windows to not remind you about the firewall, in case some malicious
>program turned that off so that you wouldn't be aware of your firewall
>not working. Since you turned it off yourself, then you need not be
>concerned about what Spybot thinks of it. I don't remember if Spybot
>has an option to ignore that, but it shouldn't take you too long to
>look at all of the options. I remember seeing such an option in either
>AdAware or Spybot, just not sure which.
>
>  
>


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