This is a short post for tonight. I was helping one of my customers fix their computer and it was infected with viruses. Yes, it was Windows 7 Home Premium and yes they had the User Account Control disabled! After cleaning up the machine, the Windows Firewall refused to start and presented error code 0x8007042c.

Here is a link to the fix:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/5366225a-46e7-4d6c-a389-8bd18a5c3aad/windows-firewall-damaged-by-windows-7-antivirus-2012

  • Joe