I ran Windows update on my XP PC and selected all. It made my Windows firewall applet break and Windows shares become unavailable. The firewall applet wouldn't opne in Control panel.
I fixed it by reinstalling XP SP2.
Has anyone else seen this issue?
2007-01-30 21:07:38 · 2 answers · asked by Mikael P 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
It doesn't do that!?!?
You'd probably had some files go corrupt which got fixed when you installed SP2!!!!
2007-01-30 21:15:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's really unheard of. I would be willing to bet that one of the following happened:
- the update failed to load for some reason, causing several Windows components to become corrupted, which in turn affected the firewall
- you have a 3rd-party app installed that didn't like the update, and somehow impacted the firewall
- you have a 3rd-party app installed that conflicted with the firewall, which had nothing to do with the update
- you had a virus/spyware infection around the same time that you applied the Windows update giving it the appearance that it was the problem
Are you 100% sure the update was the cause, or did you just notice several days or weeks later that the firewall was disabled? Something had to have brought that to your attention. I doubt you would have just wondered into the firewall settings right after to see if it was turned off.
2007-01-30 21:15:04 · answer #2 · answered by SirCharles 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋