Installing XP SP2 broke my Panda firewall

Everything was working great since I installed Panda AV Plantinum 7.x a
few months ago onto an XP Pro machne. I like Panda's a/v. The firewall
was a bit simple, but I keep using it because its integrated and its
only a test box.

Installed SP2. Now no network at all. Email, Firefox, IE etc.

Checked the support pages on Panda's site. There are exactly the right
questions, but all the answers are about how to use a firewall, and
making sure you have allowed net access to the relevant programs.

But I know (believe) everything had the right permissions, and I even
checked them, and uninstalled/reinstalled the Panda s/w and downloaded
all the Panda updates.

Tried Googling Panda + Firewall + SP2 but I couldn't really find
anything satisfactory (I will keep trying this in the meantime).

At the moment, turned off Pandas firewall, and put on KPF 2.1.5. The
other 2 bits of the Panda A/V (permanent protection & email protection)
seem to be working fine.

I am thinking its something I've broken on my machine (I just figure
that if there really were an incompatibility, there would be Google and
Panda support hit all over the place).

Just looking for suggestions as to where I might start looking. Or
maybe leave Panda's firewall off and finally shell out for that Tiny
Firewall I've read good things about ("very good but hard to use"),

w4tch3r

"w4tch3r" wrote in message

> Everything was working great since I installed Panda AV Plantinum 7.x a
> few months ago onto an XP Pro machne. I like Panda's a/v. The firewall
> was a bit simple, but I keep using it because its integrated and its
> only a test box.
>
> Installed SP2. Now no network at all. Email, Firefox, IE etc.
>
> Checked the support pages on Panda's site. There are exactly the right
> questions, but all the answers are about how to use a firewall, and
> making sure you have allowed net access to the relevant programs.
>
> But I know (believe) everything had the right permissions, and I even
> checked them, and uninstalled/reinstalled the Panda s/w and downloaded
> all the Panda updates.
>
> Tried Googling Panda + Firewall + SP2 but I couldn't really find
> anything satisfactory (I will keep trying this in the meantime).
>
> At the moment, turned off Pandas firewall, and put on KPF 2.1.5. The
> other 2 bits of the Panda A/V (permanent protection & email protection)
> seem to be working fine.
>
> I am thinking its something I've broken on my machine (I just figure
> that if there really were an incompatibility, there would be Google and
> Panda support hit all over the place).
>
> Just looking for suggestions as to where I might start looking. Or
> maybe leave Panda's firewall off and finally shell out for that Tiny
> Firewall I've read good things about ("very good but hard to use"),
>
> w4tch3r

SP2 adds a new Windows Firewall that is automatically turned on - have you
gone into Windows Firewall and disabled that? If not, that could be causing
your problems. If you are running another firewall then turn the Windows
Firewall OFF.

I run XP Pro SP2 with Zone Alarm and have no such problems, but then again
after installing SP2 I did go into the Windows Firewall and disabled it...