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    Hi Guys....

    My kid's computer, after running fine for months, has stopped the WinXP firewall (which I had enabled) and will not let me access it anymore. I have put Zone Alarm back on and all is OK, but what happened?

    I get the message"For your security some settings are controlled by group policy" when I try to access it, and all three options(On/Off/Don't allow exceptions) are greyed out. The kids claim not to have altered the settings (at least knowingly). I have never used group policy, and I am sure they haven't.

    I know I am using a better firewall now anyway, but I would like to get control back!

    Unrelated thing: On the same pc, the onboard LAN quit, so I put in a Linksys NIC card I had and restored connectivity. (Using default winxp driver). When I went to update driver from the Linksys CD I got "MSVCRTD.DLL not found, and the update stalls. What is this all about, and should I care?

    Thanks
    P4 2.8/533 on MSI 865PE Neo2 Platinum, 1G Crucial, ATI 9600 XT, 5.1 catalyst drivers, TB Santa Cruz, 80G WD 7200 ATA 100, 350W PS Win XP SP2

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    Sounds like you're probably infected with something. Start running the anti-spyware programs.
    Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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    • #3
      Well, that is what I thought, but MS antispyware has been running for months, and I already ran spybot, adaware and a squared. All clear.
      P4 2.8/533 on MSI 865PE Neo2 Platinum, 1G Crucial, ATI 9600 XT, 5.1 catalyst drivers, TB Santa Cruz, 80G WD 7200 ATA 100, 350W PS Win XP SP2

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      • #4
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