It’s stupid alert messages like this which make me glad I switched from XP to OS X.
Windows is so secure that it blocks your anti-virus client from connecting to the net. Brilliant!
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7 responses so far ↓
1 louie // Sep 18, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Now that’s new.
I use AVG for a long time and that never happened.
2 Michael Flanagan // Sep 18, 2007 at 5:09 pm
As far as I know, XP blocks every new piece of software from connecting to the Internet until you specifically approve it. Don’t remember it being too difficult to grant new software the ability to connect.
…although yeah, you might need to contact the sysadmin, if that’s not you.
3 Gamma Goblin // Sep 18, 2007 at 5:51 pm
So… youre complaining that Windows firewall is working correctly? Wow, interesting angle you have on that one!
4 Cormac Moylan // Sep 18, 2007 at 6:57 pm
That depends on what you define working correctly as. A security application blocking another security application in order to make your system more secure is not an application working correctly in my opinion.
5 francis mahon // Sep 20, 2007 at 10:31 am
It’s worse in Vista (I have my poor Mac dual-booting, what did it ever do to deserve it?) - it asks on evert boot, and doesn’t let me tell it to leave AVG alone.
6 Carrigaline // Sep 21, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Can you just not disable the Windows firewall if you want to run AVG? Afterall, it’s pointless to have two firewalls running at the same time.
7 Carrigaline // Sep 21, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Whoops, ignore my last comment.
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