Re: suspicious firewall rules in WinXP firewall

On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:16:23 PDT, Bob Madore said:
> The first problem of course is the firewall or internet security suite
> --- remove that and all should be OK again.

You mean "all should *look* OK again".

> A spyware and virus have the ability to perform this same problem.

And if the corruption of the firewall is due to spyware or a virus,
fixing the firewall doesn't remove the actual malware, and as a result,
things are most certainly *NOT* OK. You have gotten rid of the patient's
fever, but the bacteria is still present.

Nuke it from orbit and reinstall. It's the only way to be sure.