Windows Firewall Was Disabled.

Zephur · 11-16-2008, 04:26 PM

The other day ago. A computer in my house contracted a virus that brought up a prompt saying my computer had one. AVG quickly quarantined it. Calling it Infection / Fake Alert. Today, on my own computer. I turned it on and it said my windows firewall was disabled. Windows firewall in the only one I use. I went to the control panel and tried to turn it back on, it wouldn't let me access the windows firewall icon. My anti virus and updates were still on and working though. So I restarted my computer and my firewall was working. I was wondering if this was a windows malfunction or if a virus was trying to cause damage. I ran ad-aware and avg virus scan. Both came up clean.

Zephur · 11-16-2008, 05:18 PM

This is the error it gave me when I tried to manually turn on my firewall.

Due to an unidentified problem, Windows cannot display Windows Firewall settings.

vitaeterna · 11-17-2008, 09:23 AM

An infection can definitely interfere with your firewall.

If you think you are infected then please follow and post in the other internet Security Forum.

Also, I would recommend using the ZoneAlarm Firewall. It is dynamic and passes the leak test as shown at www.grc.com

vitaeterna

11-16-2008, 04:26 PM	#1 (permalink)
Zephur Registered User Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 5 OS: Xp SP 3	Windows Firewall Was Disabled. The other day ago. A computer in my house contracted a virus that brought up a prompt saying my computer had one. AVG quickly quarantined it. Calling it Infection / Fake Alert. Today, on my own computer. I turned it on and it said my windows firewall was disabled. Windows firewall in the only one I use. I went to the control panel and tried to turn it back on, it wouldn't let me access the windows firewall icon. My anti virus and updates were still on and working though. So I restarted my computer and my firewall was working. I was wondering if this was a windows malfunction or if a virus was trying to cause damage. I ran ad-aware and avg virus scan. Both came up clean.

11-16-2008, 05:18 PM	#2 (permalink)
Zephur Registered User Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 5 OS: Xp SP 3	Re: Windows Firewall Was Disabled. This is the error it gave me when I tried to manually turn on my firewall. Due to an unidentified problem, Windows cannot display Windows Firewall settings.

11-17-2008, 09:23 AM	#3 (permalink)
vitaeterna Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 8 OS: xp sp3	Re: Windows Firewall Was Disabled. An infection can definitely interfere with your firewall. If you think you are infected then please follow and post in the other internet Security Forum. Also, I would recommend using the ZoneAlarm Firewall. It is dynamic and passes the leak test as shown at www.grc.com vitaeterna Last edited by vitaeterna; 11-17-2008 at 09:32 AM.