Windows Firewall settings grayed out #

If malware has turned off Windows Firewall and disabled making changes to same, deleting the EnableFirewall values indicated below may restore access:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile]
"EnableFirewall"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\StandardProfile]
"EnableFirewall"=dword:00000000

/windows | Aug 16, 2009

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