On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:23:08 -0700, "Bryce"
<fukuzzz@takethisout.hotmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on
going with:


>Oh, Michael, Michael. I feel for you. I can't believe you are having so many
>problems with your XP firewall. My  workd ftp (210 gigs) has been up with 45
>users
>for 2 months without going down. I wonder what you could be doing wrong.
>Can't diss the MS stuff, it works great. It almost seems like it works on
>autopilot or something.

Which is precisely the problem.

I put in port openings for the ftp server and for WinMX, everything
runs along just fine-n-dandy for a day or two, then XP decides to
delete the port openings I have set up.

I went the route of completely disabling XP firewall and went with my
router firewall and Norton on the box and everything worked fine for a
few weeks. Then I downloaded and installed an XP update. Next time I
booted up my machine, XP firewall was re-enabled and everything is
fucking fucked.

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