Programmatically disable/enable Windows firewall in java

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how to programmatically detect whether firewall is disable/enable i Java code?

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Posted 19-Jan-10 22:15pm

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Nagy Vilmos · Answer 1 · 2010-11-02T07:12:00

Unless the firewall offers an API to allow this then it can't be done. AFAIK, the MS Windows native firewall does not give this.

Posted 2-Nov-10 7:12am

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Peter_in_2780 2-Nov-10 19:22pm

Yeah, wouldn't be much of a firewall if malware could just disable it...