Re: xp sp2 firewall grayed out.

For some reason i cannot explain my firewall has been turned off and cannot
turn it on in security center. I have booted in safe mode ran AVG... all
clean,SpyBot ... all clean and S&D and ADAware(AdAware did find 3 Critical
objects... all tracking cookies). I followed you instructions and it worked
just fine. I still am unable to figure out why the firewall is off
though??????????

"Malke" wrote:

BrianMultiLanguage wrote:

I am not on a domain, home net work, admin on my machine, logged in as
such. And yet the firewall is grayed out.
I log in to pc with admin rights.
Since I can not turn it off, even with gpedit.msc, I can uninstall
sp2. Is there another option?
Thanks

See if any of this information helps:

FIREWALL DEAD, or other network issues:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892350

MS antispyware tool disables Windows Firewall (or to reset firewall):
Start>Run cmd [enter]
netsh winsock reset catalog [enter]
Follow prompts and reboot.

Malke
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