Changing Settings in a Specific Profile

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The following example demonstrates changing settings in a specific profile.

Option Explicit

'Set Constants
Const NET_FW_PROFILE_DOMAIN = 0
Const NET_FW_PROFILE_STANDARD = 1

'Declare variables
' Create the firewall manager object.
Dim fwMgr
Set fwMgr = CreateObject("HNetCfg.FwMgr")

' Get the current profile for the local firewall policy.
Dim profile
set profile = fwMgr.LocalPolicy.GetProfileByType(NET_FW_PROFILE_STANDARD)

profile.IcmpSettings.AllowInboundEchoRequest = TRUE

'Use this line if you want to disable the setting.
'profile.IcmpSettings.AllowInboundEchoRequest = FALSE