firewall

Hey all, I'm posting this one because I'm really out of ideas right now. When I try to access Windows Firewall in the control panel, I hear the "click" sound from windows, but nothing happens. I've checked and the service is running normally, I restarted it and still nothing. When I try...

Hi all. I am not originally a windows user, mainly use fedora 20 but on 2 of my laptops there are windows 8 and windows 7 installed. Originally I wanted to have access via ssh to them from my fedora machine. But keep getting disconnected than I tried connecting one windows 7 machine to one...

Hi I posted about my friends computer that kept blue screening. I finally got that fixed and the computer is running good, but he keeps picking up malware. Today while I was talking on the phone he had the Java Update thing pop up 4 times. Every time he runs Malwarebytes he finds PUPs and...

I have installed on my Windows Server 2008 R1 32 Bit a copy of SQL Server 2008 R2 32 Bit and my security solution is Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1. I am trying to run SQL remotely from workstations running multiple versions of Visual Studio all running the same security solution. None of the...

Hi, I have a Desktop with Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit. I use internet with 3G Dongle/Data Card. Internet Speed is find. Even I can play and download music and video. I updated Windows 8.1 using Automatic Update. It was successful. AVG Internet Security in installed. Even I updated 3G Dongle...

Hi My friend Paul has a message keep popping up in the lower right hand corner of his monitor saying that it is Windows Security Essentials and that it has found a virus that needs to be removed. The thing is it doesn't look quite right to me, the window is yellow and doesn't look like...

Hi guys. I know there have been many similar posts but none of them caries any responses that worked for me. Basically, what is happening is that for some time now I am unable to upload anything to any http:// or use programs like Dropbox/Google Drive. Websites like YouTube just jumps to 100%...

i can.'t get win 7 firewall to start,been on google try ed every thing. when i go to services there are things stopped, firewall is stopped ,but it is checked ,but can't start it or any other service. enable is grayed out.when i open the firewall,and click on, use rec amended settings i...

Target machine is XP home, and I am trying to access it from a Windows 8 machine. Both are wireless, and are in the same workgroup. I get the "Remote Desktop can't connect" message using either the computer name or the current IP address I can ping the address RDC is enabled on target I...

Original release date: January 02, 2014 Systems Affected Point of Sale Systems Overview Point of Sale Systems When consumers purchase goods or services from a retailer, the transaction is processed through what are commonly referred to as Point of Sale (POS) systems. POS systems consist of...

I have a Dell OptiPlex 990 I purchased last May. I just restored it to factory settings because of a non-related issue, IE and a software DLL registration problems. Now that the system has been rebuilt and reattached to the Domain, I can't see networked computers. I am however, able to map a...

Hello I notice with Win 8.1 I have some new additions in my firewall called WI-FI network discovery + other similar terms. I also just got an optional Windows update called wireless router module. Should I allow or hide the update and why am i getting these firewall wirelss entries. I I need...

I have a computer running windows 7 that is having internet connectivity problems. AOL desktop is loading and connecting to the internet fine. Internet explorer will load the home page most of the time (Google) then not connect to any other site. Fire Fox (recently installed) will also connect...

Hello Win 8.1, MBAM, SpywareBlaster, Win Firewall, Defender. I tried to download Dell manuals and am the only one who cannot. I get an error that says page cannot be viewed. If I lower the Comcast Gateway from medium to low I can get the manual to open in pdf as it should. There is a warning...

Today we released Security Advisory 2896666 regarding an issue that affects customers using Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Office 2003 through 2010, and all supported versions of Microsoft Lync. We are aware of targeted attacks, largely in the Middle East and South...

That's right: It keeps setting all these Microsoft programs to the "allowed" list. I don't use them, I don't need them, and I have half a mind to destroy their respective directories, because windows seems to want to hang on to them for some ungodly reason. Every time I update windows, a...

I can connect to the web but no home gropu can be made it shows that the home is no connected and public is in the firewall but I cant change that to home operational I cant restore as it shows the network has faults or even update from the disc

My internet access keeps going out. The laptop is still connected to the router but my wireless connection says no internet access. I have to disable windows firewall then got to the wireless internet connection status and click on diagnose. It then resolves the problem and gives me an error...

Hi I was reading the post in the Windows 7 forum, about Microsoft's message that Security Essentials is not meant to be the only AV software that you run on your computer and that they may be dropping support for it. Does that mean that they want you to run 2 antivirus programs? I already...