Problem: Windows Firewall Turns Off By Itself After HP System Recovery

Problem: Windows Firewall Turns Off By Itself After HP System Recovery

Description:

Windows Firewall turns off by itself after HP System Recovery.

Windows displays notification that Windows Firewall is turned off.


In Windows Firewall, there are Exceptions for DISCover - Digital Interactive System.

This Microsoft Technet Windows Client TechCenter forum message thread mentions this:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/itproxpsp/thread/cc78153c-1811-46c3-a1a3-7d2c7dc3e7ba

"Friday, October 16, 2009 7:15 mouse47
...

I had installed Spybot with Teatimer. Teatimer (when set to paranoid mode) lets you know when it is scanning a new process. I kept trying to quick get to Task manager when I would see teatimer's notification and the windows security pop-up come up at the same time. After many attempts I found out it was "myFTP.exe". A google search said it was from a program called DisCover (digital interactive systems). I did indeed have DisCover on my computer. I came with my computer. I have never used it. It's some kind of drop and play gaming application."

Solution:
Go to Add/Remove Software (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307895)
Look for Discover
Delete entry only for Discover

How Exposure to Open Source Has Set Me Free

While using Linux for exclusively for the past 5 years, I've been exposed to the concept of Open Source software (open-source software).

Open Source software is that it is free, and comes with source code.

In brief, Open Source is software that sets you free. Over the past 10 years I have used Debian Linux and FreeBSD, having installed it on low end PC computers. As well, I have installed Knoppix on PCs on which Window XP would not installed.

So my computer experience would be considered to be advanced and extensive by a few people. Though, I view my experience as intermediate, since there is so much more to learn.

As an advanced computer user, I would have no exclusive preference for any kind of operating system since I would feel comfortable using Linux, OS X, Windows, Solaris, BSD, and Unix.

Thus am I thankful that my experience with open source software has set me free.

What Windows Really Is

From Windows as a GUI over DOS to DOS-less NT, then later XP, and onwards to Vista, this product has basically merged the MSDOS kernel into the GUI, mostly to inculcate the "point-and-click" mindset first fostered with Apple Mac.

However, development of the X Window System happened independently of the influence of Xerox Alto on Mac OS, and Microsoft's license of certain aspects of Macintosh user interface from Apple.

Then through aggressive marketing, Windows came to dominance.

In response, Mac OS became Unix-like in 1999 with the release of OS X.

References:
History of Mac OS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mac_OS
History of Mac OS X: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mac_OS_X
History of Microsoft Windows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows
History of X-Window System: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#History