Just today got a warning that my Firewall wasn't turned on. Tried to turn it on and it won't respond. Any ideas?

Hello,

First we need to pull up your application logs to see if there are any errors there. Go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer, or type eventvwr.msc in the start menu search box and hit enter.

Do you see any errors? If so, post the Event ID, Source, and the error message details as well.

Originally Posted by prisoner6

Just today got a warning that my Firewall wasn't turned on. Tried to turn it on and it won't respond. Any ideas?

If you are not running an Antivirus suite (which commonly disables Vista Firewall)

then do this and turn it on:

Start>in search, type firewall>click "windows firewall with advanced security">click continue>In center, click "windows firewall properties" If, ot on, tur firewall state to on in the following, then click apply.

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I got this message after typing in: Sc config MpsSvc start= auto

[SC] OpenService FAILED 5:
Access is denied.

Originally Posted by PainlessTorture

Is the windows firewall service enabled?

Open a command prompt as admin and type the following...

• Sc config MpsSvc start= auto
• Net start MpsSvc
• Netsh set firewall opmode enable

In that order, do not type it any other way apart from the way i have typed it. Copy and paste might be a good idea here.

You also may have to consider the possibility that your system has been infiltrated by a hacker. If you think this is the case you should either install a thrid party firewall for example COMODO and disable windows firewall or type the following command to reset your firewall. This will remove any changes a hacker may have made and everything will be blocked again until you unblock it when it pops up on the screen.

Command - Netsh firewall reset


Let us know if that helps