windows firewall disables at start up

[nursy200]

This problem has been occuring on my laptop for some time but I have just ignored it as I thought it was something to do with the fact I have zonealarm.

However 2 days ago my son managed to infect the laptop with various trojans which I have managed eventually to eradicate.

I have run avg/adaware/windows defender/spybot.clean up and malawarebyte and things seem to be running ok now, but just wondering if I should be concerened about the firewall switcing off and what can I do about it

[Spyrus]

Hello there, the problem of "windows firewall disables at start up" has already been solved on our forums. Check out the threads that are given below:

1. http://forums.techarena.in/security-...rs/1102829.htm
2. Error 170 - Could not start the Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service on Local Computer.
3. http://forums.techarena.in/vista-security/985451.htm