firewall vs virus

i recently was attacked with 12 viruses and since cannot turn my windows
firewall back on ( i have no idea why it was off ) It keeps telling me " due
to an unidentified problem. windows cannot display windows firewall settings"
any ideas????? i have already long ago d/l the service pack 2.

pc dumbo wrote:
> i recently was attacked with 12 viruses and since cannot turn my
> windows firewall back on ( i have no idea why it was off ) It keeps
> telling me " due to an unidentified problem. windows cannot display
> windows firewall settings" any ideas????? i have already long ago
> d/l the service pack 2.

Truthfully - since I cannot touch the machine - nor can most on this
newsgroup - the only SAFE recommendation for you is to backup your important
documents, contacts, emails, etc and format the machine.

There is no telling what damage has been done/what is left behind - and if
you are not experienced enough to fix it yourself and/or know/can afford to
bring it to someone who is (and will back that up) - then you would be
better off doing a clean installation after backing up your data.

You'll end up feeling more secure anyway.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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From: "pc dumbo" <>

| i recently was attacked with 12 viruses and since cannot turn my windows
| firewall back on ( i have no idea why it was off ) It keeps telling me " due
| to an unidentified problem. windows cannot display windows firewall settings"
| any ideas????? i have already long ago d/l the service pack 2.


Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file. http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm

Additional Instructions:
http://harrisonrj.home.comcast.net/s...6_Getting_Help


* * * Please report back your results * * *


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Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm