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suspicious firewall rules in WinXP firewall Jun 30 2006 08:32PM
belka att net (4 replies)

Re: suspicious firewall rules in WinXP firewall Jul 03 2006 04:12PM
kent crispin (kent songbird com) (2 replies)

Re: suspicious firewall rules in WinXP firewall Jul 03 2006 10:16PM
Bob Madore (bob dexis net) (1 replies)

Re: suspicious firewall rules in WinXP firewall Jul 04 2006 02:39PM
Valdis Kletnieks vt edu (1 replies)

Re: suspicious firewall rules in WinXP firewall Jul 05 2006 01:19AM
Thor (Hammer of God) (thor hammerofgod com)

Exactly. And next time, don't run as local administrator, and the
virus/spyware won't be able to screw with ICF.

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On 7/4/06 7:39 AM, "Valdis.Kletnieks (at) vt (dot) edu [email concealed]" <Valdis.Kletnieks (at) vt (dot) edu [email concealed]>
spoketh to all:

> On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:16:23 PDT, Bob Madore said:
>> The first problem of course is the firewall or internet security suite
>> --- remove that and all should be OK again.
>
> You mean "all should *look* OK again".
>
>> A spyware and virus have the ability to perform this same problem.
>
> And if the corruption of the firewall is due to spyware or a virus,
> fixing the firewall doesn't remove the actual malware, and as a result,
> things are most certainly *NOT* OK. You have gotten rid of the patient's
> fever, but the bacteria is still present.
>
> Nuke it from orbit and reinstall. It's the only way to be sure.

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Re: suspicious firewall rules in WinXP firewall Jul 03 2006 09:07PM
Jamie Riden (jamesr europe com)

RE: suspicious firewall rules in WinXP firewall Jul 03 2006 03:52PM
David Gillett (gillettdavid fhda edu)

Re: suspicious firewall rules in WinXP firewall Jul 03 2006 01:10PM
killy (killfactory gmail com)

Re: suspicious firewall rules in WinXP firewall Jul 03 2006 12:51PM
Harry Hoffman (hhoffman ip-solutions net)