Windows Firewall Alert

[BillHicksRIP]

Hi. This machine's XP SP3. I keep getting 'half' a Windows firewall message popping up every time I boot my machine. Is there any way of finding out what the full message is without the useless effort you can see in the screenshot?

 

[reefoid]

Are you sure its the firewall? I think that icon can be any security centre item, so firewall/virus/auto updates. I sometimes get a message saying my AV hasn't started up, but that's because AVG is still loading after boot up.

Not sure how you find out what the message is though.

You could isolate which security centre item it is by changing the way security centre alerts you, i.e. get it to alert you for one item at a time such as firewall, reboot, see if the message still appears. Repeat with virus and auto updates selected until it re-appears and then you should know.

 

[BillHicksRIP]

I'm almost certain it's the firewall as I installed some monitoring software on the laptop yesterday and am expecting some incoming tracking to be flagged. I was sure I'd opened the correct ports in advance, but it seems not, so am trying to find what port it's coming in on without too much faffing about. This 'half' a pop-up is of use to no bugger.