macfreeman7

Hello, Someone suggested I post in here. My topic can be found at http://www.besttechie.net/forums/index.php...=9057&st=15. Basically, the issue is I can't mess with my firewall settings in Windows XP. It says something about Group Policy, which makes no sense because group policy isn't available in Windows XP Home. Any thoughts? Thank you for your time!

! REG.EXE VERSION 3.0 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Security Center AntiVirusDisableNotify REG_DWORD 0x1 FirewallDisableNotify REG_DWORD 0x1 UpdatesDisableNotify REG_DWORD 0x1 AntiVirusOverride REG_DWORD 0x1 FirewallOverride REG_DWORD 0x0 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Security Center\Monitoring

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Also, I found this last night after a scan. It has appeared several times now, and I thought it might be important. I can email you a full report if you want. If it is too small to read, let me know.

07/04/06 23:43:48 [info]: BlackLight Engine 1.0.42 initialized 07/04/06 23:43:48 [info]: OS: 5.1 build 2600 (Service Pack 2) 07/04/06 23:43:50 [Note]: 7019 4 07/04/06 23:43:50 [Note]: 7005 0 07/04/06 23:44:05 [Note]: 7006 0 07/04/06 23:44:05 [Note]: 7011 1932 07/04/06 23:44:05 [Note]: 7026 0 07/04/06 23:44:06 [Note]: 7026 0 07/04/06 23:44:16 [Note]: FSRAW library version 1.7.1019

Will do. Thanks to you both!

Awesome! I am currently installing all of those now. An update: I went ahead and reinstalled SP2. I noticed while in SP1, I had full access to my firewall settings. Once I had reinstalled SP2, however, my color depth and resolution was very low. I went ahead and installed the driver I had, and everything returned to normal. I checked my Firewall Settings, and they are still grayed out! How crazy is that? There is however, something that isn't grayed out that was before-- the "Don't allow exceptions" box is unchecked and able to be checked (not grayed out). I assume this is great progress? Than

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 2:22:33 PM, on 7/4/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MsMpEng.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Sym

I emailed you the Scan Report.

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 11:39:54 AM, on 7/4/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MsMpEng.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Sy

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 8:55:09 PM, on 7/3/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MsMpEng.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Sym

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 7:47:49 PM, on 7/3/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MsMpEng.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Sym

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Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 4:57:03 PM, on 7/3/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MsMpEng.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Sym