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re: You should be grateful.does not always mean deactivated firewall Tuesday, April 8, 2003 at 2:12 pm Posted by andyr00 (4 messages posted) the firewall on XP has various levels of security and on its highest setting it is hard to use the internet as you constantly get websites moaning about cookies an stuff,however on the recommended setting you still get the messenger pop ups which only started recently for me and is most annoying because it always crashed me out of online games and took priority,it is now disabled. On Thursday, January 9, 2003 at 4:27 pm, Downstrike wrote: >I have a comment about Stop >Pop-Up Spam Messages: >You should be grateful that it wasn't a hacker or one of the recent viruses that >find their way in through network connections. >The only time I get these particular annoyances is when I've forgotten that I deactivated >my firewall for some reason. I'm glad to be reminded at that point to reactivate >it and do virus and spyware scans. >That doesn't mean I'm going to read the SPAM very carefully. :^D >Sam [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: You should be grateful.does not always mean deactivated firewall.what do cookies have to do with firewalls? Tuesday, July 27, 2004 at 5:39 pm Posted by Downstrike (1 messages posted) If you think that XP has a firewall, and that it has anything to do with cookies, MyCrudSoft could probably sell you a few bridges and swamps too. Seriously, XP's Internet Connection Firewall is the most useless parody of a security feature ever. Firewalls - even ICF - have nothing to do with cookies. On Tuesday, April 8, 2003 at 2:12 pm, andyr00 wrote: >the firewall on XP has various levels of security and on its highest setting it is >hard to use the internet as you constantly get websites moaning about cookies an >stuff,however on the recommended setting you still get the messenger pop ups which >only started recently for me and is most annoying because it always crashed me out >of online games and took priority,it is now disabled. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum