Re: Turn off XP SP2 Firewall
- From: "Galen" <galennews@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 07:05:36 -0400
In news:0934015D-C253-4D53-8624-5C2518F94298@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
automationerrorguy <automationerrorguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> had this
to say:
My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
> Thank you for the good information.
>
> OK, I looked at the first and that looks promising. What would be the
> consequences of disabling ICS? I installed zonealarm by the way and
> it seems that Windows Firewall still runs.
>
> For the second option, I can't disable because the option is greyed
> out -- says some settings are controlled by group policy for my
> protection. However, I can never disable it, even when I'm logged in
> as administrator without connecting to any network.
Unless you need ICS because you use it there's nothing that relies on it
specifically that will break. From the looks of things you MAY be infected
with malware so below I'm going to include my standard malware mumbo jumbo.
I'd HIGHLY recommend that you give it a try and pay attention to the safe
mode and updated definitions bit at the bottom. It's not going to be quick
or easy but it's well worth it. Actually it's fairly easy but it's not
really that quick. It's a long process for all the scans to complete for
instance.
Virus:
www.grisoft.com - AVG
www.antivir.com - AntiVir
http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/index.cfm - CA eTrust
Spyware:
www.lavasoft.de - AdAware
http://security.kolla.de/ - Spybot
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx -
Microsoft Anti-Spyware Beta
Trojan:
www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ - a Squared
http://swatit.org/ Swat It
Before cleaning download this:
LSP-Fix - a free program to repair damaged Winsock 2 stacks:
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
Use that should cleaning out your PC remove or damage your in-place winsock
and you can't connect to the internet.
>From the virus and trojan category pick one application, they're all free,
download it and install it. Make sure that you update it. From the spyware
category pick all three, download them and update them to the latest
definitions. Reboot, press the F8 key over and over again, from the menu
select Safe mode without networking. Do your cleaning in there. Reboot to
regular mode and run the scans again. This isn't going to be quick or easy
but it might just solve your problems and it should prevent you from further
problems so long as you keep them updated and scan often. Most of them can
be enabled to update and scan automatically.
--
Signature changed for a moment of silence.
Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side.
.
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