XP Pro SP2 - Firewall Option Dimmed/ Greyed - Cannot Turn on

[Guest]

Hi,

My machine is running XP Pro SP2 with NO third party anti-virus protection
program and not on any private network.

Last couple of days I sorted out the Firewall option unintentionally
disabled, then I checked the properties it prompted up "No ICS services blar
blar blar" then I clicked "OK" and showed the Firewall turned off and all
option buttons turned grey/dimmed. Nothing I can do.

I've checked any hijack/ worm/ virus but nothing related to the captioned.
I've also looked up previous posts regarding similar firewall problem and
resolutions but no success at all.

One more issue come up to my machine that has not been mentioned in previous
post. The internet access for sure will suspended in 3 to 5 minutes after
boot up and before the suspension a DOS-based programme flashed up and
terminated (and the connecting speed is slowwwww).
The DOS exe file named USBUP???.exe will store in the installed windows root
directory. When I open the exe, it was written something "Bandwidth excess".

Then I thought would that be my ISP problem, I plugged in the LAN to my
another computer, everything works fine (no connectivity problem, no firework
auto turn off problem).

People, is there anyway I can resolve the problem without tedious
re-installation!!!!

Thanks in advance.

 

[Malke]

Hi,

My machine is running XP Pro SP2 with NO third party anti-virus
protection program and not on any private network.

Last couple of days I sorted out the Firewall option unintentionally
disabled, then I checked the properties it prompted up "No ICS
services blar blar blar" then I clicked "OK" and showed the Firewall
turned off and all option buttons turned grey/dimmed. Nothing I can
do.

I've checked any hijack/ worm/ virus but nothing related to the
captioned. I've also looked up previous posts regarding similar
firewall problem and resolutions but no success at all.

One more issue come up to my machine that has not been mentioned in
previous post. The internet access for sure will suspended in 3 to 5
minutes after boot up and before the suspension a DOS-based programme
flashed up and terminated (and the connecting speed is slowwwww).
The DOS exe file named USBUP???.exe will store in the installed
windows root directory. When I open the exe, it was written something
"Bandwidth excess".

Then I thought would that be my ISP problem, I plugged in the LAN to
my another computer, everything works fine (no connectivity problem,
no firework auto turn off problem).

I can't believe you are surprised that your computer is messed up. You
aren't using any antivirus protection and you've been on the Internet
with a Windows machine for more than a few minutes. You mention not
having any "third-party antivirus" installed. There is no built-in
Windows antivirus, so this means you have *zero* protection.

You need to get that machine off the Internet and any lan and clean it
up immediately. Start by scanning with either Sysclean or Dave Lipman's
Multi-AV. Then get, install, and update a full-featured antivirus and
do a thorough scan with it in Safe Mode. Since you've not been
practicing Safe Hex at all, follow your virus-scanning with scans for
non-viral malware. If this sounds difficult (and there is no shame in
admitting that), take the machine to a professional computer repair
shop for cleanup (not your local equivalent of BigStoreUSA).

Instructions for Sysclean and other malware removal are here:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

Instructions/download for Multi-AV are here:
http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm

Suggestions for practicing Safe Hex are here:
http://www.claymania.com/safe-hex.html

Malke