My laptop got hit hard last week. Between Avast and malwarebytes, I am almost back to normal. Unfortunately I cannot start the Windows Firewall/ICS. the file may have been contaminated and deleted. What do I do to recover the firewall functionality?
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Open a command prompt window as administrator and type in "sfc /scannow" without the quotes.
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I do not understand; how can that fix missing or corrupt files without the original ones?
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Windows has a hidden repository of system files. It is meant to fix your computer just enough to start your computer and recover files. However, it can also be used to repair/restore system files. Furthermore, the scan may ask you to insert your windows DVD if it cannot restore all the files it finds that it needs to.
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Thanks for the details. I was being cautious and not trying to make thing worse. I will try it and if needed, as more questions.
Edit: how long does this job run? The initial popup finished and I see no other reports or panels. Svchost is running at 50% and sometimes explorer.exe is on briefly.
Trojan/firewall
Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by ronaldheld, Jul 19, 2010.