Beta1 broke SP2 Firewall/ICS service?

[Pavel A.]

Just installed and run antispyware beta1 on moderately
dirty SP2 Pro machine. It cleaned some threats and asked
to reboot. After reboot, a security center message popped
up saying that firewall is off.
I tried to start the firewall and it failed because the
service can not start.
So I tried to start the Firewall/ICS service manually,
it failed with error 10047.

What now? How to fix it?
Broken firewall does not prevent internet access...

Regards,
--PA

 

[skydiver]

Uninstall it.
If that doesn't work, use a recent System Restore point.
That's what I'm going to do.
It also broke my Windows Firewall.
I don't know what else it might have broke...that's anybody's guess.
Otherwise it seems to work generally OK, but I've seen enough already, and
won't take the risk.

 

[Shane Keough]

This happened to me as well and it also broke my network
connection. Even though I can still get on line, the one
computer I had connecting to my computer through the LAN
can't and I can no longer access that computer's drive.

The worst part is that I tried to do a system restore
back to before I installed this software, and it won't
let the restore happen.

Now what?

 

[Pavel A.]

The Firewall/ICS service problem is not specific to MAS,
it appears that it is more common and remedies exist.
See more recent posts
(thanks for everybody who replied)

I haven't tried this yet - am away from that machine.
I've found two remedies:

A. Fix winsock by running following:
NETSH WINSOCK RESET

B. Fix dependencies of SharedAccess service by running

REG DELETE
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess /v
DependOnService

REG ADD
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess /v
DependOnService /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d "Netman"


Regards
--PA

 

[Guest]

I can't resore or get online; this sucks!

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi - Download both a copy of LSPFIX here:

http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm

AND a copy of Winsockfix for W95, W98, and ME
http://www.tacktech.com/pub/winsockfix/WinsockFix.zip
Directions here: http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=257

or here for Win2k/XP http://files.webattack.com/localdl834/WinsockxpFix.exe
Info here: http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html
Directions here: http://www.iup.edu/house/resnet/winfix.shtm

The process of removing certain malware may kill your internet connection.
If this should occur, these programs, LSPFIX and WINSOCKFIX, will enable you
to regain your connection.

NOTE: It is reported that in XP SP2, the Run command netsh winsock reset
will fix this problem without the need for these programs. (You can also
try this if you're on XP SP1. There has also been one, as yet unconfirmed,
report that this also works there.) Also, one MS technician suggested the
following sequence:

netsh int reset all
ipconfig /flushdns

See also: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/winsock.htm for additional XPSP2
info/approaches using the netsh command.


You may need to do this on a different machine and write these programs as
downloaded to a CD and transport them to the machine in question to install
there if you don't have Internet access.


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[kevin johnson]

thanks so much for this, you may very well have saved my
job, i had managed to find the lspfix on my own which only
partially restored winsock

 

[Jim Byrd]

YW, Kevin - Always glad when I can save a job.

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