When you turn off Personal Firewall, your PC is vulnerable to threats and your protection status on the Home Page is "at risk."
In some situations, you might want to turn off Personal Firewall temporarily. For example, you might need to turn Personal Firewall off while you troubleshoot an issue. If you want to work with Personal Firewall without changing your status on the Home Page , you can ignore the problem by changing your protection alert settings.
 | Modifying your protection alerts so that they do not show can leave you unaware of security vulnerabilities. Do not ignore protection alerts any longer than necessary. |
| 1 | Open the General Settings and Alerts page. |
| 2 | Click Protection Alerts . |
| 3 | Do one of the following: |
| 4 | Click Apply. |
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