I have WIN XP home ed with SP2. I use Lavasoft Adware and Yahoo Anti-Spy and
Computer Associates Anti-virus. ALL are up to date and run daily. Computer
should be clean.

I just recently noticed ( 3 days ago) that in Windows Security Center that
it says Norton Firewall is running. I have not had Norton on my system in
over 18 months or more. I removed it from the add/remove screen. I had gone
to using Windows firewall and it use to say that in the Security Center.
Something changed.

I checked Local Services and see Windows Firewall/ICS is set to Automatic
but when I try to start it, I get an error code 5:access denied. Also when I
go to Control Panel to Open Windows Firewall it says it is not running so I
click to Start and then it trys but says it cannot start it.

So I do not know if I have any Firewall protection at this point and how do
I get Windows Firewall to start. I am the administrator on the computer. It
is my personal home computer.

Any ideas will be helpful. I am not real computer savy but can usually
follow a walk-thru ok.
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Dan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin