OK.. I did something stupid. I remotely installed ZoneAlarm on a Windows 2000 server using PCAnywhere. I figured that even though I was connected remotely through PCAnywhere that ZoneAlarm would let me configure it before it locked everything up. I was wrong. ZoneAlarm locked down the internet connection and disconnected me from PCAnywhere. I can no longer PCANywhere into that computer, and the internet connection is locked down and the outside can no longer get in. Also have a mail server running on that machine, and I can't get my mail. And the DNS service has also been locked down from the outside world. So this kind of sucks.

However, I have PCAnywhere installed on another Windows 2000 server that is on the same network as that DNS server. I was able to use MMC to edit the services that are started on the server that is locked down. I disabled the two truevector zonealarm services. So theoretically if I can get the machine to restart then ZoneAlarm will not start with it. Hence, the outside world will no longer be locked out.

Does this technique sound like it will work, or are there any other things besides those 2 services that need to be disabled in order for ZoneAlarm not to automatically start when the computer boots?

Also how can I restart that server? It seems like ZoneAlarm didn't lock down the local network, so I can still access information using MMC from a computer on the same network. Since I am able to PCAnywhere into another computer on the network I am able to use MMC on the locked down computer through the local network. Is there anyway I can restart that server using a feature in MMC? I do have admin privledges.

I know... confusing. Sometimes I wonder how I get myself into these things. I can fix it later when I can actually get to the location of the computer, but I won't be able to get there until tonight. I want to try and pull this off remotely. Any ideas? This could get fun but painful.