windows sp2 firewall wont enable or disable , greyed out

mosehn · 3 May 2006 at 12:52

heres a pic of this problem
http://img71.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cantenablefirewall9xg.jpg

Sp00n · 3 May 2006 at 12:57

Are you logged on as a user or as an administrator?

Orifice · 3 May 2006 at 12:58

As it says at the top of that dialogue box that it may be controlled by group policy, it might be worth checking that. Mine certainly hasnt got that on.

mosehn · 3 May 2006 at 13:00

where is the group policy setting to fix it

mosehn · 3 May 2006 at 13:33

even tried it when logging in with administrator
no luck

The_KiD · 3 May 2006 at 13:36

It is possibly virus related.

Could you download HiJackThis, run a scan and save a log file, pasting a copy of the log here.

DO NOT FIX ANYTHING WITH HJT UNTIL WHAT TO FIX AS YOU CAN DAMAGE YOUR COMPUTER

#Chri5# · 3 May 2006 at 13:45

Relating to the Group Policy, are you in a domain (ie business PC) or is it a home PC?

Otacon · 3 May 2006 at 13:49

Yep, locked off by the registry settings that would be set by group policy. If you are in a domain, then your administrator has set the firewall policy like that (for whatever reason). If not, then some nastiness (virus/spyware) has set the keys.

If that's the case, then a proper sweep and clean needs to be done first, and then we'll revert the reg keys.

Housecall.

Pyrosoft · 3 May 2006 at 21:46

my very first thought on reading the topic title was group policy.
if it's a home machine then load up gpedit.msc from Start > Run and go change it.
If it's a work machine then it'll be set like that for a reason