Unfamiliar firewall software implemented under Windows Security Ce

18 Nov 2006 1:31 PM

ralliart12

Hi fellows. My system is running on WinXP SP2. Recently, was exploring some
of my network options when I discover my 'Windows Firewall' is turned OFF.
However, when I went to the 'Windows Security Center', I discovered a
firewall is turned ON, but it is named 'Proventia Desktop', which I'm
unfamiliar with & never remembered installing. Is this 'P.Desktop' a malware
insetad of a true firewall? & shld I turned on my 'original Windows Firewall'
now? Btw, how do I remove this Proventia Desktop if I didn't install it in
the 1st place?

What I'm uncomfortable with, & hope to find out frm this thread, is IF I
clearing dun remember installing it, & IF it is NOT the default Windows
Firewall, where did it come from, & how did it get into my system in the 1st
place?

Is Proventia Dekstop part of a larger suite of software? i.e. is it part of
a McAfee suite? Cos I do have McAfee VirusScan installed...

Btw, I can't find any entry in my Start Menu, nor Add/Remove Programs to
remove this foreign application also...it's really as if I never install it,
which in fact, I didn't!

Thanks in advance.

18 Nov 2006 2:27 PM

Ian

Seems it is a bona-fide product, though that doesn't explain how it got there.

http://www.iss.net

Possible routes might've been as a bundle with other software you did
install, or if a relatively new computer, maybe it was preinstalled.

18 Nov 2006 2:29 PM

Malke

ralliart12 wrote:

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> Hi fellows. My system is running on WinXP SP2. Recently, was
> exploring some
> of my network options when I discover my 'Windows Firewall' is turned
> OFF. However, when I went to the 'Windows Security Center', I
> discovered a firewall is turned ON, but it is named 'Proventia
> Desktop', which I'm unfamiliar with & never remembered installing. Is
> this 'P.Desktop' a malware insetad of a true firewall? & shld I turned
> on my 'original Windows Firewall' now? Btw, how do I remove this
> Proventia Desktop if I didn't install it in the 1st place?
>
> What I'm uncomfortable with, & hope to find out frm this thread, is IF
> I clearing dun remember installing it, & IF it is NOT the default
> Windows Firewall, where did it come from, & how did it get into my
> system in the 1st place?
>
> Is Proventia Dekstop part of a larger suite of software? i.e. is it
> part of a McAfee suite? Cos I do have McAfee VirusScan installed...
>
> Btw, I can't find any entry in my Start Menu, nor Add/Remove Programs
> to
> remove this foreign application also...it's really as if I never
> install it, which in fact, I didn't!

A quick Google for "Proventia Desktop" brings up a lot of links about
it. The program is apparently made by ISS:
http://www.iss.net/about/index.html

I have never heard of the program but I'm not getting any hits
indicating that it's malware, either. It doesn't look like something
that could have just appeared by itself. Either you installed it or
someone else who uses the computer installed it, or if this is a
corporate machine you need to ask your IT Dept.

Since none of us can see your computer or knows what you've been doing
on it (perhaps added a router that has this software?), you'll have to
figure out the answers to how the program got installed on your
computer.

Malke

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