SP2 and WinFirewall

Hi all

I have a laptop that I run .net and V Studio now I've download SP2 and things have been fine until I plugged into my office. I have Norton running AV and it's Internet Security stuff. For some reason I cant turn off Windows Firewall those options are grayed out! Looks like its a group policy settings thing. How can I disable the Windows firewall?? I cant work>>>>>

Thanks for your help.
MPC458

 

Try disabling the service

 

How would I go about that Captin??

 

start..-> run.. type SERVICES.MSC .. look on the right for WINDOWS FIREWALL/ INTERNET CONNECTION (ICS) service. ..right click on it, choose properties, then use the drop down to disable the service. Hit Apply.

 

Thanks for your help...
I must say this is a weird problem. Still dont understand why I could not turn it off normally?

Again thanks
mpc458

 

If the computer is on a domain, it will be greyed out, because it is automatically disabled.