XP firewall does not work - "service failed to start"
i can foresee comments like "the XP firewall doesn't really work even if it DID start", so let's just ignore the actual uselessnes of it for now...
The problem is thus: yesterday my sister came to me and said "the firewall seems to be turned off. For some reason she was looking at the internet connection properties or something and noticed this. So sure enough I go to chek on it, and it's off.
So anyway I check that box, "protect my computer and network by limiting or preventing access to this computer from the Internet". And when Ic lick okay on the dialog to apply the changes I get an error saying:
"An error occurred while Internet Connection Sharing was being enabled.
The dependency service or group failed to start"
So, somehow I need to get this connection sharing busines to start. i have recently had some computer troubles, well-documented on this thread here: http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=275839
I can't say if that's related at all. But if you read my last post you'll get a good idea of what went on. I wouldn't expect any one to read the whole thread.
Yesterday I was killing some startup programs that I didn't want any more. (by using msconfig to stop them from starting at logon) so the ones I stopped were:
-ashdips (the Avast! antivirus thingy's system tray icon and real-time protection)
-and another entry which did not have a name. I thought it didn't looked a bit supicious because it didn't have aname. it was in HKCU\siftware\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run, if I remember correctly. I hope thatw asn;t a stupid hting to do.
Anyway, any suggestions are greatly appreciated. if anyone wants to see an HJT log I can do that..
