Firewall refuses to turn on/change recomended settings

[Xen12]

Hello guys, my first post here, which means I am pretty desperate :'(

Below, you will see that I am Administrator~

And below this, you will see that my Firewall is being retarded!

And I read somewhere that the firewall would be somehow "linked/conected" or whatever. ( Absolutely no idea what I'm talking about)

Heres a picture of aviras firewall, which is gray:

As for my system specs:
Windows 7 Home Premium
64bit
8GB DDR
1TB HDD
ATI Radeon HD 5570

Tia

 

[Layback Bear]

I know nothing about Avira but I suggest checking and see if Windows 7 built in Firewall is activated. It might stop the Avira Firewall from activating.

 

[Xen12]

How do I check? D:

 

[Xen12]

I just googled it, sorry bout that, but when i go to my firewall, it doesnt give me the option weather to enable/disable, just a red sign with the button saying change settings, take a look at my second picture, its exactly that

 

[DBone]

Avira Free AV doesn't have a firewall that I'm aware of. I believe it's grayed out because you have to upgrade to a paid version to get that feature. Check the W7 firewall service to see if it's running. Start > type services > Click on services > scroll down to windows firewall > right click on windows firewall > left click properties > make sure start up type is set to automatic > Click start if it is not running

 

[Xen12]

I did as you ask, but whats weird is: It's not there :|

 

[DBone]

I found a couple of links:

[Solved] Windows Firewall not in the services list, and not working - security - windows-7 (through this link I found the below link)

Error Code 0x80070424 with Windows Firewall and "Base Filtering Engine Service" Not available in services database list. - Microsoft Reduce Customer Effort Center - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

It looks like a malicious program might be the cause of this, so if I were you I would download/update/run full scan with Malwarebytes to see what may be present, click the free download button:

Malwarebytes

Report back with the results.

 

[Xen12]

Man
bro
sire

I look up to you .____.

thanks for the links! I already have MalwareBytes installed, I'll do a full scan and check out the links, thanks a ton!

 

[DBone]

After you run MBAM, I would also run a scan with Hitman Pro even if MBAM comes back clean. Let's rule out malware before working on the firewall. If you aren't familiar with HMP, it is forever free to scan with, but if it finds something, you have to activate a 30 day free license to remove the malware. It's a little different than MBAM but well worth it.

Downloads - SurfRight

 

[Layback Bear]

Thanks DBone for the help.

 

[Xen12]

Okay, looks like the problem isn't clearly solved yet, Malwarebytes came clean, So I turned to HMP and a few, which deleted, and prompted me to reboot, to which I did, I went to the following links Dbone suggested, everything went well, but when I click on the BFE and start it, it gives me error 05 access denied, as I scroll down to Windows Firewall, as my last brim of hope of solving this problem, turns out no, it gives me Error 1608, the dependency service or group failed to start.

 

[Xen12]

Solved

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PROBLEM IS SOLVED!

Thank you both for your help. xxoxoxoxo

Both BFE/ windows firewall have started, and working!

 

[DBone]

FEQHGFQIUFEQGTYHTR

PROBLEM IS SOLVED!

Thank you both for your help. xxoxoxoxo

Both BFE/ windows firewall have started, and working!

Glad you got it sorted!

Thanks DBone for the help.

Right back at ya Bear!