Your points are valid, I am not saying never turn if off to troubleshoot a problem but that you should not run the computer with the firewall off as it is an important part of the security of the PC and your network Or maybe you just nee to down and dirty grab a file off a remote computer but can't because firewall is preventing it. Another might be to simply troubleshoot why some network system isn't working with PCs, if you can narrow it down to the firewall, you might be able to figure out that it's not configured correctly.

One would be to install a piece of software remotely, then you can reenable it. I would agree that there are third party firewalls that have more features, but I wouldn't say Windows firewalls have no value.Īlso, molan, I can think of a number of reasons why you might want to disable Windows Firewall remotely. For Windows XP, it's only a one way firewall, but for Windows 7 it's much more robust.

simply stating the windows firewall isn't worth anything is just not true.

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