Hi. Recently when I start up my laptop, sometimes the security center
and Windows firewall get disabled and I get this balloon saying that
my pc is at risk. I cannot enable Win firewall. I get a message saying
that due to an unknown reason my security settings is disabled. I have
AVG anti virus and anti rootkit plus spybot S&D. A couple of days ago
spybot found something saying that its a virus disabling win fire
wall. I removed it and now spybot does not find anything but still 3
out of 5 times I start my pc I have the same prob. Does anyone have
any idea what I should do to fix it? Thanks.

I think AVG temporarily disables the firewall when it updates.
have you got AVG set to update regularly?
"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi. Recently when I start up my laptop, sometimes the security center
> and Windows firewall get disabled and I get this balloon saying that
> my pc is at risk. I cannot enable Win firewall. I get a message saying
> that due to an unknown reason my security settings is disabled. I have
> AVG anti virus and anti rootkit plus spybot S&D. A couple of days ago
> spybot found something saying that its a virus disabling win fire
> wall. I removed it and now spybot does not find anything but still 3
> out of 5 times I start my pc I have the same prob. Does anyone have
> any idea what I should do to fix it? Thanks.
>

In message <(E-Mail Removed)>
at 11:56:33 on Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Steve <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>Does anyone have
>any idea what I should do to fix it?
>
I think the command to stop the winfire wall is a "net stop" command.
It's quite common the virus you've got to be bundled with something else
which then does something nasty after this.

If you get a 3rd party firewall such as ZneAlarm or Sygate, then these
should prompt you if another program is trying to stop the firewall.
--
Mike News