Shaine Mata

Yesterday, I was messing around trying to get my VPN connection to work going. I’ve had trouble doing it and figured maybe I had the settings wrong. It turns out that Microsoft OneCare has a built-in firewall that blocks outgoing traffic as well. I had turned off the Windows Firewall, so had no reason to suspect that OneCare has a separate firewall. There is a way you can open up your OneCare firewall to allow for VPN connections without shutting down the whole service. Keep this in mind if you are having trouble connecting to your VPN.