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    Windows Vista Firewall Problem on my Thinkpad

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by n0000b, Oct 29, 2008.

  1. n0000b

    n0000b Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi *!

    Not sure if it has anything to do with Lenovo, but anyways here it is. For the last few days, everytime when I start my notebook SL500, the windows firewall is turned off (I get a windows notification that the firewall has been turned off) and then I have to manually go and set it to on. This also happens if the notebook wakes up from sleep or from hibernation, I always have to turn on the firewall manually. I am not sure if I changed some settings that might be turning it off Or could this be some virus? I did a complete scan of the system with latest AVG Antivirus, and it didn't reported anything suspicious. Any ideas what could be wrong here?

    Thanks.
     
    n0000b, Oct 29, 2008
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    Xseries4ever Notebook Geek

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    Did you install/uninstall a third party firewall?
     
    Xseries4ever, Oct 29, 2008
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    n0000b Notebook Enthusiast

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    nops, there is no other firewall that I know of (I don't think the free version of AVG contains a firewall).
     
    n0000b, Oct 29, 2008
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