I used tiny personal firewall for over a year (along with the firewall in XP) with no trouble. Recently it won't allow my DSL to connect with the internet. I removed and reinstalled the program but to no avail. Anyone use the free firewall? Any ideas?
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Are you using both the XP firewall and tine personal firewall at the same time? In theory, having multiple firewalls running at once could cause a problem, although I don't know what would have triggered a change. Have you tried running with only one or the other to see if they work correctly by themselves?
Less likely is a virus; but that would have been more likely to open the firewall rather than block your connection. Many virusses can disable anti-virus and firewall software now. Have you updated and run a recent virus scan? Have you tried an on-line virus scan of your system from Symantec or something similar, in case your local anti-virus was compromised?
Message Edited by Jason98036 on 11-11-2003 04:39 PM
The xp firewall was 'built on' the Tiny Firewall so that's probably why they got along for this long. The xp thingy is really redundant. Try a full scan at dslreports.com with only Tiny running; if you have to, connect to the internet first before you manually load Tiny.
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Are you using both the XP firewall and tine personal firewall at the same time? In theory, having multiple firewalls running at once could cause a problem, although I don't know what would have triggered a change. Have you tried running with only one or the other to see if they work correctly by themselves?
Less likely is a virus; but that would have been more likely to open the firewall rather than block your connection. Many virusses can disable anti-virus and firewall software now. Have you updated and run a recent virus scan? Have you tried an on-line virus scan of your system from Symantec or something similar, in case your local anti-virus was compromised?
Message Edited by Jason98036 on 11-11-2003 04:39 PM
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