Firewall Wreckers

Wrecked Firewall

Tonight a virus chiseled me: I received an e-mail (in italian) with a nonsensical joke about the ex-president Berlusconi, with a .zip attachment. I opened it: it had 2 GIFs in it… I opened the first one, and it was a little picture of Silvio Berlusconi with his son; then I opened the second one, and nothing appeared. Damn! It wasn’t a .GIF, but a .PIF!

After a couple of system checks, I discovered that Windows’ Firewall control panel was no more accessible: “Due to an unidentified problem, Windows cannot display Windows Firewall settings“. In addiction, Internet Connection Sharing didn’t work.

I Googled about this error, and I found a quick fix. I want to restate it here, to spread the word:

- Download and execute this .REG file;
- Reboot;
- Go to a command line and execute this command: NETSH FIREWALL RESET;
- Now you can enter Windows Firewall settings, to go there and reconfigure it as you like.

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4 commenti

  1. bietiekay said:
    August 17th, 2006

    i just deleted you from my blogroll… i cannot believe ANYONE is going to click on such things….

  2. riccardo said:
    August 18th, 2006

    I’ll wait for your return, when the same thing will happen to you.
    See ya ;)

  3. 1st time said:
    August 22nd, 2006

    Its happened 2 me whilst using IE 5.0, i was redirected to some porn site and scripts opened themselves and wrecked my firewall.

    Basically, this site amongst all other sites fixed my problem.

  4. cofish said:
    March 2nd, 2007

    how to setting firewall openport in VBScript?

    Windows Firewall->Advance->Location Area Connection->Settings with the below settings.
    1. Description Of Service = SAV_2397
    2. Name of Ip address of the hosting server = 192.168.1.55
    3. External and Internal port = 2397
    4. TCP

    can be setting in VBScript?

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