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Anonymous   06-23-2005 at 02:18:48 AM

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I have a computer which has WinXP Home SP2 and basically I removed a
virus/spyware that somehow managed to mess up the firewall settings. Right
now I can manually through registry turn on and off the firewall. However,
it is ALWAYS greyed out, the enable and disable are greyed out and I'm
unable to choose either. I know it is an option within the registry but I'm
having a damn hard time figuring out what it might be. Does anyone have any
clue?

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Anonymous   06-23-2005 at 04:32:22 PM
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the netsh command in SP2 can rebuild your Winsock. Open the command prompt and type: netsh winsock reset , then press ENTER.

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>I have a computer which has WinXP Home SP2 and basically I removed a virus/spyware that somehow managed to mess up the firewall
>settings. Right now I can manually through registry turn on and off the firewall. However, it is ALWAYS greyed out, the enable
>and disable are greyed out and I'm unable to choose either. I know it is an option within the registry but I'm having a damn hard
>time figuring out what it might be. Does anyone have any clue?
>

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