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How to disable 'hidden' Windows Firewall Filter?

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Mar 15, 20267956 views
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Problem

I have used the command "netsh WFP Show State" to dump to disk (wfpstate.xml) a list of all active windows filters, and found a filter called "Port Scanning Prevention Filter". For diagnostic purposes, I need to test disabling this particular filter, but I cannot find this within the UI for Windows…

Error Output

<item>
    <filterKey>{c06945c4-54f1-4b79-9523-71ad3ba2e3be}</filterKey>
    <displayData>
        <name>Port Scanning Prevention Filter</name>
     …

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Fix for: How to disable 'hidden' Windows Firewall Filter?

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Ok so you can't shut down that particular rule; it is a system default! Take a look at this TechNet article regarding the windows scanning prevention filter. Any port that has been explicitly opened by the firewall but does not have an application l…

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