Windows Firewall Being Disabled

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Are you controlling firewall settings using Domain and Standard
profiles via Group Policy? We had a problem very similar to this -
domain profile was set to turn the Firewall OFF (when machines are
connected on-campus) and standard profile was set to turn the Firewall
ON (when machines were off-site). Problem occurred when the user would
VPN in and the Firewall would switch to the Domain Profile and turn off
the firewall (very disappointing!).

Bill Follis wrote:
> Randomly the Windows Firewall gets disabled. Usually I can turn it back on
> and it will stay on. Occassionally, within minutes it will get disabled
> again. Any ideas on what is causing this to happen and how to stop it? Is
> my system infected with some kind of worm or virus? I have run the recent
> version of Norton Antivirus as a full system scan and nothing is found.