Mine is Windows Vista. I am using ICS - adhoc to share my internet connection to my brother's laptop. (Windows 7)
It is working fine when I was using Norton Internet Security 2009. But now after installing NIS 2010, ICS adhoc is not working anymore (no internet connection on my brother's laptop). Even the Local Connection is not working (cannot share any files anymore, cannot see any devices on the network). I read some about this new feature WiFi protection but I am not fully informed about this yet. In any case, is there a way to turn off this feature or some workaround to fix this problem?
I had already done these:
~turn off completely smart firewall
~turn off complete intrusion prevention
(restarted several times)
none of the two work, still the adhoc is not working normally. and i am suspecting that this 'public wifi hotspot' something (what ever you call it) is causing the trouble. because after establishing connection to the adhoc ~ many firewall activities appeared on security history (protected something).
if no fix is available for this, I will try shifting to NAV 2010 and will depend on Windows Vista Firewall... :'c