Error 10047 windows firewall

My Computer? Then I went to? Services and Applications? The error message that I get after that is,? Hi Sometimes netsh winsock reset doesn't fix it.

I had the same problem-winsock reset fixed it. Fixes described in Microsoft KB did not have any effect, although it is written specifically to address the same symptoms. Thanks Malke the reset sorted my similar problem cheers Geof.

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After drying, drives show up but are read only. Started by derkevevin Yesterday at PM Replies: 5. And when i restart still the firewall is turned off.. It shows status as stopped. And under dependencies it shows wmi initialization failure. When i try to start firewall.. Again i get same error What to do please help. There is also a windows script host settings that keeps popping up as soon as i login.. Due to all this my avast antivirus mail scanner is giving error and i am not able to connect to internet..

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Apple Mac. Staff online. Keebellah Trusted Advisor. Mike writes, I recently installed an application that put a bunch of spyware on my system. The Security Center warns me that I have no firewall active and when I try to start the Windows Firewall I get Error an address incompatible with the requested protocol was used.

Can this be fixed or do I need to reinstall Windows? I recently had a similar experience after installing a freeware app on my test system that dumped a payload of spyware during the install. Microsoft AntiSpyware caught all the junk, but when it finished cleaning the system, the Windows Firewall was disabled. It's fairly common for spyware applications to install something called a Layered Service Provider LSP , which are used by the companies distributing spyware to gather information about Internet usage habits of the infected systems.