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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Was it disabled? I thought that XP just didn't have a firewall and got one added later on. I forget which virus it was but RPC would crash within seconds of a device being connected to the internet meaning you had to reboot.

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Apparently it was MSBlaster

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

According to Wikipedia, it used to be called Internet Connection Firewall in early versions of XP and then was rebranded to Windows Firewall and turned on automatically in SP2.