McAfee Desktop Firewall 8.5 doesn"t work properly

Hi,
I have McAfee Desktop firewall 8.5 on my Windows XP pro system,
defined a Rule to block all ip protocolls in both directions and
activated the firewall.

But I still can go to the internet with tghe browser and the activity
protocol of the firewall says
"Allowed ..." to all outgoing connections.

What's wrong with the firewall ?

Regards
Pep

Re: McAfee Desktop Firewall 8.5 doesn"t work properly

abc49 schrieb:

> Hi,
> I have McAfee Desktop firewall 8.5 on my Windows XP pro system,
> defined a Rule to block all ip protocolls in both directions and
> activated the firewall.
>
> But I still can go to the internet with tghe browser and the activity
> protocol of the firewall says
> "Allowed ..." to all outgoing connections.
>
> What's wrong with the firewall ?

Obviously it does not do what it is advertised to do. A very common
problem with so called personal firewalls.

Regards
Thomas

Re: McAfee Desktop Firewall 8.5 doesn"t work properly

Got it,

have to deactivate and activate the network connection as well after
firewall is activated.

regards

abc49 wrote:
> Hi,
> I have McAfee Desktop firewall 8.5 on my Windows XP pro system,
> defined a Rule to block all ip protocolls in both directions and
> activated the firewall.
>
> But I still can go to the internet with tghe browser and the activity
> protocol of the firewall says
> "Allowed ..." to all outgoing connections.
>
> What's wrong with the firewall ?
>
> Regards
> Pep