Windows 10: Firewall is not working

Brink and z3r010 will be familiar with the look of this thread, they saw most of it in the EightForums but it was an unrelated part of another problem (FF addon) which they helped me fix. (And now I can post on this forum again. *Biggrin )

First let me see if my firewall is still messed up...and it is.

As of a few days ago I noticed that my Defender Firewall was not activated (as far as I remember it's always been activated). Previously I had downloaded & installed the latest free version of MBAM and it was a little wonky. I uninstalled it w/ Revo and afterwards my firewall was inaccessible.
I pressed the restore button but nothing happened. No reaction at all.




All 3 of those network options above have the same grayed-out, unusable toggle button...




I clicked on the button here and this warning came up...



That ^ blue Recommended Settings help dialog didn't work either.
I tried this thing too...




Yesterday I got all those 1909 update things without a hitch, including 4 Malicious Tool downloads. So it's not affecting my WUs.
I did an sfc\ scannow and DISM restore health thingy and they both came up squeaky clean.

What I remember is that about a week or so ago I downloaded and installed the newest MBAM, wasn't impressed, uninstalled it with Revo, and noticed I had 4 different installs of it that Revo caught in its Traced Programs. I deleted those as well. Since then nothing new added or removed and later I noticed my Firewall messed up.

Anybody have any idea what I should be looking for? *Confused




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Good Antivirus + Firewall

I would never put anything Norton on my computer.

Nod32 is arguably the best antivirus. AVG is likely not as good, but it's free and at least pretty good.

Firewalls, I'd put Comodo and whatever "Tiny Personal Firewall" is named nowadays on your short list. I think Kerio might have sold it now and it's named something else. Otherwise, just put Comodo on your short list. I think the current version's ease of use has taken a step backwards, seems a bit counter-intuitive when trying to do certain things with it, but overall it does a good job and the price is right.

 

Best free AV and firewall

Can Windows Firewall block outgoing connections yet? If not, it's one step above useless.

Look into Online Armor for a free firewall.

 

firewall

Hi Jackie,

For you to be able to get to your firewall, please follow the steps below:

• Go to start Button.
• Open Windows defender Security Center.
• Then go to Firewall & network protection.
• Then choose a network profile.

We'll look forward to your response.