Does the spyware inactivate the microsoft firewall

[Catherine]

I installed the Beta spyware from Microsoft but noticed
after that my microsoft firewall has been inactivated.
tried to turn it on but it won't. Has this happened to
anybody.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

If you are running Windows XP, Service Pack 2:

At a command prompt, type:

netsh winsock reset

hit enter
restart machine.

For earlier XP versions, or Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003, use this KB
article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817571