[error] Prob with Firewall Service

[Caledai]

Hi all.

This may be related to Autopatcher but I cannot determine that based upon the info I have. So here is a desc of the problem.

Have a problem on a LG LS50a Laptop running XP Home.

I upgraded it to Service Pack 2 using a network install.

I then applied the security tweaks and all the critical/recommended updates using autopatcher april 05.

Since then the security center is stuffed.

I managed to get AutoUpdate working again, via the autoupdate control panel.

The update/firewall modules will not load.

I did not take note if the firewall was working post sp2 as I went from SP2 to autopatcher. I also cannot guarantee if the problem existed or not preSP2.

  Security Center - Firewall said:

We're sorry, security center cannot turn on Firewall

  Security Center - Automatic Updates said:

We're sorry, The security center could not change your Automatic Updates settings

  Control Panel - Firewall said:

Due to an unidentified problem, windows cannot display the windows firewall settings

Luckily the auto update control panel still works. But the Windows Firewall service doesn't exist in services.msc

I have run sfc/ scannow to no effect.

Antivirus - Symantec Corporate Client - 8.00.9378

Responses so far to thread in XP Client

  Marsden said:

Did you turn off Anti-Virus before updating???

No - AV was still active - however I have not had any problem with this before while updating either to sp2 or autopatcher. This av, while not compatible with the sp2 features is what I have seen running and have run on many different versions of sp2. Both home and pro.

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  Nyar said:

you should search through the autopatcher forum https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showforum=89 and make a post there.

AFAIK the problem isn't caused by Autopatcher itself, but it may have been caused by an update in the patch. The download had good md5 hash.

It could even have existed prior to sp2, although I doubt the security center could have been corrupted. I did a couple of searches on the LG website, and found nothing to do with sp2.

I did have a look through the autopatcher threads - firewall returns so many results at the moment, but couldn't see anything related. Google itself only returned 2 results on the string I provided - and they did not seem to relate to the problem.

The did give me the info to re-register 2 dlls, but that had no effect - even after reboot.

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  Nyar said:

However, I (and im sure many other people) wouldnt advise you to use windows firewall. In short, its crap. Theres many other greatly superior firewalls you could use.

In regards to the usefullness of the firewall, personally I agree but thats not the issue here.

If it existed - I would just disable it.

Thats what I was trying to do.

ut to find it missing completely, that is what worries me.

Along with the error when attempting to change the settings.

Esp after the system file checker found nothing wrong.

[akaladis Veteran]

Haven't had any such problems myself. Of course I don't use the XP Firewall, but I have no trouble turning it (or AutoUpdate) on or off.

[Caledai]

I didn't think it was autopatcher related - its just a posibility that one of the updates may have caused this.

[jfree81762]

Have you tried a repair install w/slipstreamed(or new) XP SP2 cd? Fixes most security center issues.