XP Firewall "Corrupted WMI"?

It's me again, I went to windows update and typed in wmi
under search, check out this page

http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?
st=b&na=80&qu=WMI&View=en-us


>-----Original Message-----
>x-no-archive: yes
>
>Two weeks ago I followed the good advice found in this
group and:
>
>1. Enabled my XP's firewall by going to
the 'properties' tab in Network
>Connections.
>
>2. Purchased Norton AntiVirus and enabled "auto
protect" and "email
>scanning".
>
>
>Today, for reasons unknown:
>
>1. I can't confirm if my XP firewall is still up
because when I click the
>'advanced' tab in Network Connections I get a "WMI may
be corrupted"
>message.
>
>2. NAV gives me warnings and won't let me enable "auto
protect" or "email
>scanning".
>
>
>Anyone have any idea what's going on and what might be a
resolution? I did
>what I could to protect myself, but something apparently
is messing with my
>XP firewall and NAV install.
>
>Help!
>
>
>
>.
>

[SAR I]

x-no-archive: yes

Went there but there wasn't anything that I could understand. SFC is set to
"automatic" and is functioning but the dependency to WMI is dead. Help.

TIA

> wrote in message
...
> It's me again, I went to windows update and typed in wmi
> under search, check out this page
>
> http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?
> st=b&na=80&qu=WMI&View=en-us
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >x-no-archive: yes
> >
> >Two weeks ago I followed the good advice found in this
> group and:
> >
> >1. Enabled my XP's firewall by going to
> the 'properties' tab in Network
> >Connections.
> >
> >2. Purchased Norton AntiVirus and enabled "auto
> protect" and "email
> >scanning".
> >
> >
> >Today, for reasons unknown:
> >
> >1. I can't confirm if my XP firewall is still up
> because when I click the
> >'advanced' tab in Network Connections I get a "WMI may
> be corrupted"
> >message.
> >
> >2. NAV gives me warnings and won't let me enable "auto
> protect" or "email
> >scanning".
> >
> >
> >Anyone have any idea what's going on and what might be a
> resolution? I did
> >what I could to protect myself, but something apparently
> is messing with my
> >XP firewall and NAV install.
> >
> >Help!
> >
> >
> >
> >.
> >