A little puzzled

[gannondorf]

it just reminded me of something. for all you windows xp users, xp has built-in firewall. you can enable it by right clicking on your internet connection (in "network and dial-up connections" folder), and in "advanced" tab you can enable/disable firewall. it can't be configured, you can only turn it on or off.

[Redfield]

Originally posted by gannondorf
it just reminded me of something. for all you windows xp users, xp has built-in firewall. you can enable it by right clicking on your internet connection (in "network and dial-up connections" folder), and in "advanced" tab you can enable/disable firewall. it can't be configured, you can only turn it on or off.

right i am with the evil aol lol...and i all i can do is set the firewall with the disabled lan connection i cant seem to set the firewall for the normal dial up 56k aol connection please get back if u can help me..btw i do have xp

[gannondorf]

mate, i never used AOL, therefore i dont know much stuff about it. but tell me, do you use normal windows dial-up networking to connect with AOL, or they have special software?

[J]

Let me tell you.. firewalls are good, but when you have this vicious friend that likes to hack to know what's inside your pc..you need a home network... yeah, I have one and an old PII as the host (in theory...or the main access...)... and as a firewall... my friend hacked me with unix(how? I don't know)...mf!

He is good (and a excellent programmer), and he explained me something about backdoors and security holes that microsoft hasn't patched yet. And showed a vast knowledge about networks.

I'll test that firewall, gannon...

[gannondorf]

how? samba+nfs makes it easy..

[Redfield]

Originally posted by gannondorf
mate, i never used AOL, therefore i dont know much stuff about it. but tell me, do you use normal windows dial-up networking to connect with AOL, or they have special software?

well all i did is when i got my new pc a bit back..i just put the aol disk in and set it up and that was it...i didnt do nothing else..if that helps ya i dont no :-S..

[Magus]

I am not paranoid about lamers though. There is a slim chance of you being attacked by someone like that unless you have a lot of enemies. I have never been hacked and I have only had one virus. No firewall. Or do I? hehe

[gannondorf]

ok Redfield, this is what you need to do to create individual dial up connection so you can enable XP's firewall on it...

dig out the following info : the dialup number you are dialing at AOL, your username and your password, their pop3/smtp mail servers.

when you collect that info, it's easy to create dialup connection by running "Network Connection Wizard" in XP. try to connect to internet with it, and if you suceed, disconnect and apply the firewall like i explained before. good luck...

[Magus]

Hey Gan, how do you like my new sig?

[RoseDragon83L]

how decent is the built in firewall in xp? i used to use zonealarm but since i installed xp i have the built in one enabled. wish i could configure it though.

[SomeUserGuy]

i'm curious too. my sister was asking that the other day, but i told her to dl zonealarm instead.

[Redfield]

Originally posted by gannondorf
ok Redfield, this is what you need to do to create individual dial up connection so you can enable XP's firewall on it...

dig out the following info : the dialup number you are dialing at AOL, your username and your password, their pop3/smtp mail servers.

when you collect that info, it's easy to create dialup connection by running "Network Connection Wizard" in XP. try to connect to internet with it, and if you suceed, disconnect and apply the firewall like i explained before. good luck...

Hey i was messing around and i think i did the same as u said..cuz now my connection when i right click on the aol option it says its firewalled?..but it says its disconnected but it aint tho...is that what it should do?

[gannondorf]

Magus i told you before in some other thread that your sig rox

XP's firewall is average, and lousy because you cant configure it's settings. Redfield, you should disable or uninstall the AOL software, because your comp connects trough it. then run the dial-up connection you created.

[Redfield]

Originally posted by gannondorf
Magus i told you before in some other thread that your sig rox

XP's firewall is average, and lousy because you cant configure it's settings. Redfield, you should disable or uninstall the AOL software, because your comp connects trough it. then run the dial-up connection you created.

i just ended up downloading zone alarm in the end lol..cheers for the help there gannodorf