Question by lpolancoh: Why does my computer tell me a firewall is active even if I don’t have one?
A few days ago I started to download a 3 3gB file using Bit Comet and it started great, at around 100 kB/s. Then, after about 10 minutes, it went down to 5 kB/s and stayed around there. I followed many guides which suggested opening ports and enabling UPnP on my router. I did all of this and it stayed really slow. Yesterday, a friend recommended using Vuze, which I did, but the download was still really slow. I tested opening and using different ports, but all the Vuze tests came as if the ports were closed, even though I had previously opened them with my router. After further research, I found a test (JFirewall Test) that told me which ports were open and which weren’t. It said a firewall was blocking all my ports, yet I don’t have any firewalls active. And when I try to change the Windows firewall settings, my computer tells me it can’t change the setting because the firewall isn’t activated. When I try to activate it, it tells me “Windows cannot activate the firewall/ICS”
“JFirewallTest has established that a firewall is blocking all inbound connections to this computer,” even after following your answers (I disabled my antivirus (both of them) and unchecked the Windows Firewall in the Services tab. In response to Gary’s answer, I cannot activate the Windows Firewall to ope the ports. The computer just doesn’t let me, it shows me an error message.

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Answer by zak l
if u have an anti virus running – it may be blocking that application.
goto start – RUN and type msconfig
on the window which appears goto the startup tab and disable your antivirus – restart ur computer and now see if the applic ation is running well or not – u should revert back to the previous setting and reactivate ur antivirus – at least u will know the root casuse and then think wot to do next.

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