Today morning when i turn on the pc windows firewall automatically gets turns off , there is no Local Network Area Connection icon too and i have installed Windows Defender and Avira Antivirus. I am not able to access Internet too.. Internet connection is automatically disabled and there is no Local area network Icon. When i try to turn on Firewall i receive an error message which says "Windows Firewall Setting cannot be displayed because the associated service is not running. Do you want to start the Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service?" and when i go to Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Services and i am trying to start Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) but i receive error message which says "Could not start the Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) Service on Local computer. Error 2: The System cannot find the file specified. I would be really thankful for your help. Thanks OS: Windows XP SP3 2 people need an answerI do too

Certain Administrative Templates from the Windows XP Security Guidehttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/892199 ...... Windows Firewall settings cannot be displayed because the associated service is not running. Do you want to start the Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing ... setting ...Okay what else was going on ? "Tunneling" to disable firewalls is a favorite target of a bot program to infect the computer and reconnect falsely immersing the computer into a botnet..... Related botnet activities information ..... SEE ..... (related botnet activites possible)Tunneling to circumvent firewall policyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunneling_protocol#Tunneling_to_circumvent_firewall_policyIP spoofinghttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/IP_spoofing.html(î-pç spoof´ing) (n.) A technique used to gain unauthorized access to computers,whereby the intruder sends messages to a computer with an IP address indicatingthat the message is coming from a trusted host. To engage in IP spoofing, ahacker must first use a variety of techniques to find an IP address of a trustedhost and then modify the packet headers so that it appears that the packets arecoming from that host. Newer routers and firewall arrangements can offerprotection against IP spoofing.US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#800113DNS cache poisoning (sometimes referred to as cache pollution) is an attacktechnique ... all rely on an attacker's ability to predictably spoof traffic,...http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113DNS cache poisoning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAug 18, 2008 ... China has been accused of engaging in DNS poisoning, as part ofthe Golden Shield Project, for particular sites or networks which violate ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_cache_poisoningShocker DNS spoofing vuln discovered three years ago by a student ...Jul 9, 2008 ... In order to spoof a DNS request it's necessary to "guess" boththe Query ... Vendors form alliance to fix DNS poisoning flaw (9 July 2008) ...http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/09/dns_bug_student_discovery/Gerald60606 Windows Live Spaces http://gerald60606.spaces.live.com/default.aspx

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