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| Thread ID: 68633 | 2006-05-05 21:05:00 | How do you remove firewalls that dont exist? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | Press F1 |
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| 452513 | 2006-05-05 21:05:00 | Howdy all, On the other PC here, ZA is installed on it. However, when I shut ZA down, in security centre, it says there's more than 1 firewall installed, but none are turned on (well, obviously coz I just turned it off)! And XP SP2's firewall isnt turned on. There is NO other firewall installed, besides Zonealarm. Symantec's firewall USED to be installed, but has now been removed. I even used the removal tools to make sure. It used to have AVG + firewall, and the PC-Cillin firewall installed, but these have also been removed. I have also removed entries related to any other firewall in the registry. So, any ideas on where XP is getting its info, why its saying more than 1 firewall is still installed?? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 452514 | 2006-05-05 21:33:00 | You could hunt through the registry for signs of the old firewalls... | Growly (6) | ||
| 452515 | 2006-05-05 21:39:00 | I did. re: In the first post. I have also removed entries related to any other firewall in the registry. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 452516 | 2006-05-05 21:40:00 | Would an app not show in add and remove? I find jv 16 good for finding rouge elements. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 452517 | 2006-05-05 21:43:00 | I have also removed entries related to any other firewall in the registry.Might be an idea to try an automated registry cleaner - regcleaner is a good app. | Greg (193) | ||
| 452518 | 2006-05-05 21:44:00 | Would an app not show in add and remove? I find jv 16 good for finding rouge elements . It should, if it's installed! BUT it doesnt on the other PC here . . . It was uninstalled ages ago . Well, every other firewall program was uninstalled . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 452519 | 2006-05-06 01:03:00 | Perhaps it is something as simple as XP counting its own firewall as No. 1, even though turned off and ZA as No. 2 even though that is also turned off. After all 1+1=2? :) | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 452520 | 2006-05-06 01:09:00 | Perhaps it is something as simple as XP counting its own firewall as No. 1, even though turned off and ZA as No. 2 even though that is also turned off. After all 1+1=2? :) I thought of that BUT: Turn ZA off / shut it down on this PC, it'll say ZA is turned off, not Windows found more than 1 firewall installed (this is what it says on the other PC, when I shut ZA down - this is with XP's firewall off). The only thing that is correct is, under the virus protection entry in security center, on both of these PC's it says ZA Security AV is turned off, which is WHAT it should say....when I shut ZA down. I have a feeling its got something to do with this entry in the registry but not too sure if these can be deleted, except ZA. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center\Monitoring Coz at the mo, there's 14 entries under this.....including ZA. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 452521 | 2006-05-06 02:42:00 | Speedy Download Regseeker. Free and good. www.snapfiles.com Go to Find in registry. Tick all the boxes except (Match whole word.) Search for All the names (one at a time) that go with Zone Alarm like Zone Labs True Vector Alarm and any other words you can think of that might belong. When the entrys come up its easy to see the ones you want. Its worth gettng this program just for this feature alone. RegSeeker can be installed into its own folder on any drive as it dose not create any registry entrys of its own. To uninstall it just delete the folder. Good luck Ian |
i-gordon (962) | ||
| 452522 | 2006-05-06 02:48:00 | Ta I-Gordon, getting it now. I'll see what it picks up! | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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