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[Trespasser]

Hi,
I was just wondering just how to disable DefenseWall's firewall besides right-clicking on the tray icon and disabling inbound and outbound? I tried this...

"Create "force_hips" REG_SZ value into the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SoftSphere Technologies\DefenseWall" registry key. This will revert DW back to a HIPS only program" registry entry but upon reboot I couldn't get an outbound connection at all. Only after deleting that registry value and rebooting was I able to make a connection.

I'm running Windows 7 Pro 32 bit with Windows Firewall with Advanced Security set up to my liking on an HP laptop 2.0 ghz dual-core processor with 4 gigs of ram connecting to my home network via wireless.

BTW, my Firefox 4 freezing problem seems fixed in 3.11 beta.

Thank you.

Bob Good

[Ilya Rabinovich]

You couldn't get connections for both trusted and untrusted processes? I ask because I can't reproduce the issue, everything's fine here, at my test virtual Win7 machine.

[Trespasser]

You couldn't get connections for both trusted and untrusted processes? I ask because I can't reproduce the issue, everything's fine here, at my test virtual Win7 machine.

Can't say about other processes but Firefox couldn't connect. In the Network and Sharing Center there was a red X between my wireless router icon and the Internet icon. Windows Troubleshooting couldn't find the reason for it. Could have been a fluck. I'll try the registry hack once again and see what happens.

I'll report back here shortly.

Thanks for the reply, Ilya.

Bob

[Trespasser]

Ilya,
It must have been a fluck for now the registry hack (force_hips) is working and I can still connect out. The first time I tried it I also had inbound and outbound disabled before I applied the registry hack. Maybe that had something to do with it...I don't know .

I rebooted and connected out twice, just to be sure, before posting back here. All's fine.

Sorry for the trouble.

Thank you.

Bob Good