How do I use the Nvidia Firewall on the Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe?

[MrTwister1]

I read my manual and can't find the application on the cd. Is there somewhere else I can download it?

 

[CpuDesigner]

The general advice is NOT to use the acrive armor firewall as some users have experienced problems including corrupted downloads.

Search this forum or the General Hardware forum for more info.

The drivers can be found on nVidia's site

 

[akugami]

You can download it from nVidia's web site and it's wierd that you can't find it on your motherboard app cd. However, the general advice is indeed NOT to run it. I don't know if they've worked out the bugs and I'm not going to be a beta tester to find out. When I was using it, it'd crap out and corrupt downloads on certain programs and yet others that tried to access the net would cause a BSOD.

 

[R3MF]

I have always had it work flawlessly on my Shuttle, and would recommend it inspite of others problems.

I did have a problem on an Asus 6150 board where the firewall refused to run tho.

 

[DBSX]

I didn't install it, per so many recommendations of others, but I believe it can be installed as part of the nVidia platform driver package. Download the latest package and install it, and you should get a popup that asks if you want to install the firewall and some other application (both of which I declined). Also the motherboard driver disk has this package as well, though I am not sure it is the latest version (I always download from the website to be sure I have the latest versions rather than trusting I get a recent revision motherboard install CD).

\Dan

 

[ProviaFan]

It is a big hassle, often causing BSODs (in my case on an ASUS A8N-E), and providing nothing appealing that I could see over the regular Windows firewall to make it worth the time trying to see if it works on a given system.

 

[IdaGno]

problems solved?

http://www.planetamd64.com/index.php?showtopic=14975

/Popular error caused by the 'nvidia firewall'........also........

You can correct the error by adding the NTAUTHORITY/SERVICE user to launch and activation permissions for app_filter with local launch and activation permissions.

To do this go to Administrative tools-component services, in the treeview expand component services-computers-my computer-DCOM Config, right click on app_filter select properties, on the security tab select customize for launch and activation permissions and hit the edit button to open the launch permissions page, click the add button to open the user and group selection page, click advanced to open the select user or group page, click the find now button then scroll down through the list of users and groups untill you find SERVICE in the list and highlight it then click ok to return to the select users or groups page, click ok again to return to the launch permissions page, now you should see SERVICE in the list of users and groups for app_filter, highlight SERVICE and check local launch and local activation in the permissions for SERVICE, click ok again to return to app_filter properties page and click ok again, now you should be all the way back to the component services page and the SERVICE user has permissions so you wont get any more DCOM errors............

nvtcp.sys is usually the culprit........... :thmbup: /

 

[Orcishhuman]

You have to download the complete motherboard drivers package then at the end it asks you if you want to install Network Access Manager.