XP Home firewall Greyed out

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Have XP home machine that had malware (now clean) but the firewall is greyed
out.
Only one User / Administrator setup.
Have removed and reinstalled SP2
Have tried everything I can find listed in this newsgroup but no joy.
If I delete the Firewall key in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall
then reboot to safemode the firewall works ok. If I boot to normal mode it
is greyed out and OFF.
Any Ideas what could be disableing the firewall in normal mode?
Thanks in anticipation.
Gordon
 
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Gogs said:
Have XP home machine that had malware (now clean) but the firewall is greyed
out.
Only one User / Administrator setup.
Have removed and reinstalled SP2
Have tried everything I can find listed in this newsgroup but no joy.
If I delete the Firewall key in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall
then reboot to safemode the firewall works ok. If I boot to normal mode it
is greyed out and OFF.
Any Ideas what could be disableing the firewall in normal mode?
Thanks in anticipation.
Gordon
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Hello Gordon !

Q: what could be disableing the firewall in normal mode?
A: The malware you have .

Windows Firewall is really really good firewall but it has one disadvantage
- it is vulnreable to all the nasty things that can kill it from inside.And
you have malware.Viruses and Spyware turn it off to be able the hacker to get
remote control of your computer which is really dangerous or to download any
other nasty things such as another malware until you computer crashes and
dies. Reinstalling SP2 will not help you and even the things may get worse.
Now , to start with , you can remove SP2 because I belive it is damaged by
the malware you have.

Then , goto my web-site:
http://pandaman.my.contact.bg
and perform the *fast* malware removal instructions to check and clean your
computer.
As you do not have firewall , it is impossible to turn it on , it is not
recommended to be connected to internet because you are quite vulnerable to
threats and that's why you can use another computer (not public) (e.g. at
work or at your friend ) to download the necessary things to clean your
computer.Or you can goto the nearest computer shop and buy router with
hardware firewall which would be the best.
If you download the tools from another computer , make sure the other
computer is also malware free.
If you now buy router with firewall , you can plug it between your computer
and the cable for the lan/internet so you'll have hardware firewall and will
be able to use your own computer to download the tools. Moreover , in future
you'll have one more protection with two firewalls(one software and one
hardware) that work great together.

At the end , when the computer is 100% malware free , install SP2.
Before installing it , learn what you should do before installing it:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2

Finish with something realy important .Learn how to protect your computer so
what you have now will never comes again:
http://pandaman.my.contact.bg
Protect your PC section


Feel free to contact the Community again ! :-)

Panda_man
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Learn how to protect your computer:
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
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Hi Panda_man,

There was still some malware there but I still can't get it cleared.
Ad-aware is detecting 2 new critical object but can't delete one called
r46ulej91ho.dll but the name keeps changing.
if jou run Ad-aware again it still picks up 2 objects. Spybot fixed
exerything it found.
I suspect it is some thing to do with " look2me" which I though I had got
rid of.
 
My reply is at the bottom of your message :

Gogs said:
Hi Panda_man,

There was still some malware there but I still can't get it cleared.
Ad-aware is detecting 2 new critical object but can't delete one called
r46ulej91ho.dll but the name keeps changing.
if jou run Ad-aware again it still picks up 2 objects. Spybot fixed
exerything it found.
I suspect it is some thing to do with " look2me" which I though I had got
rid of.
Click to expand...

Ok , this is after removing SP2 and the performing the fast malware removal
instructions , right??? Where did you get the tools from?
Please , provide more info .

Also , you can try the detailed malware removal instructions if the detailed
failed.


Panda_man
--
Prevention is always better than cure !
--
My web page:
http://pandaman.my.contact.bg
Learn how to protect your computer:
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
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Hi,
Firewall now back to normal but "change the way Serurity Centre Alerts me"
is greyed out. Any ideas?
problems seem to have been caused by "look2me" malware which is an absolute
nightmare to clean.
Thanks for your help.
Gordon
 
Hi,
PC was infected with SurfSideKick and Look2me which have proved well nigh
impossible to clean despite using Spbot, Ad-aware, Ewido, Defender, and
various other fixes.
I have spent approximately 5 days solid trying to clean this one and I have
pulled most of my hair out!
If you know which registry keys affect the security centre notifications
that may help.
Thanks,
Gordon
 
I am suffering through the same ordeal. I have not found any viruses or
malware, though I have scanned using AVG, and Adaware, and Sweepi. I am
really getting frustrated. I need to get SP2 loaded, but I am having
absolutely no success!
 
so if you still have problems
do a system restore to a time BEFORE you had those spyware.

Tell me if this helps
 
This PC was in an unused state for about six months. I tried to go back as
far as I could and that is where I am at right now.

The part that really bites is that I keep trying to fix this, but since the
firewall is working on SP1, I don't know if the attempt to fix the problem
worked until I install SP2. Then I have to restore back to SP1 and try again.
 
Hi,

Gave up and reloaded PC. The first time I have had admit defeat!

There is obviously some malware that is not being picked up by any of the
spyware tools- perhaps it is something new!!


regards Gordon
 
I am with you brother! I am beginning to question the malware proposal. I
went out and installed Panda Titanium. I now have Pandas firewall. I have
ran the full cadre of scans on the system with this product and have had no
luck. I guess if worse comes to worst, I do have a personal firewall if a
pay for it.

Let me ask you. Did the computer that you were trying to upgrade come with
SP1 and you are trying to upgrade to SP2? Is this computer a DELL?

The reason that I ask is that I ran into something similar with a DELL
laptop. The only difference is that I was able to get it to work by
performing a repair using a Windows install CD that included SP2. I tried
that here and it did not work.
 
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