On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 4:19 PM, James Kerr <cluster...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have it disabled by policy. Looking at a desktops control panel it shows > that its turned off, however in services its says its running. Is this > normal? Should the service be running?
The service is running, it's just not doing anything. If you have both a "domain" and a... um... not-domain[1] profile configured for the firewall, the service will switch between the two as you connect/disconnect from the domain. (Or, more precisely, as network connections with a DNS suffix matching the domain are configured/deconfigured.) So the service watches, ready to kick in if needed. [1] I forget what this is called. :) If you're never going to use the Win Firewall, you can disable the services (ALG and SharedAccess). -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
