Help! DWS blocks windows activation

[Sirgeorge]

So here is something for the group today. I found myself in a situation where I had blocked Windows 10 from getting access to me and my work using a program called Destroy Windows Spying. I happen to know for a fact that this program is not intentionally trying to hurt me but it really scorched Windows when it tried to block everything. Now this is exactly what I wanted but I need to temporarily set things so I can authenticate my new software version as I recently upgraded my version of 10 and found myself unable to connect to the authentication server in order to set things up.

 

This PARTICULAR problem happens to be one that is hard to find information on and if I remember correctly I'm going to end up having to find the current address windows uses for authentication and punching it in to authenticate before deleting that entry again to resecure my system from that avenue of attack by Microsoft (and yes they are effectively the virus infectors that give the system I use and that is how I consider them to be these days after Windows 10). The problem here really is the details associated with the outline I gave above. Anyone willing to walk things through here please? Thank you.

[davidna2002]

uninstall it then reinstall, or can you disable it on start up using msconfig?

[Sirgeorge]

Already did the whole uninstall install bit. My suspect here is a removal of or blocking off the authentication server either through the rules or in the firewall ip blocking.

[Falconevo]

Give this a try from an administrative command line, it should clear out any additional rules in the Windows ADV firewall and set it back to its defaults. 

 

netsh advfirewall reset

 

Be aware running this will reset any application rules that were generated on first launch of the application.  So if you launch new apps they will ask to add their firewall rules again on first launch.

Also check the entries in place in the following file;

C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\HOSTS

Open the file within an administrative notepad, see if any entries have been added to the HOSTS file in the bottom.  This file is used to bypass DNS and force an address to a certain location, a lot of blocking tools use it to prevent a DNS name being resolved and force it to 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0 (null) to prevent the traffic going anywhere.

[Sirgeorge]

On 12/14/2016 at 7:51 AM, Falconevo said:

Give this a try from an administrative command line, it should clear out any additional rules in the Windows ADV firewall and set it back to its defaults. 

 

netsh advfirewall reset

 

Be aware running this will reset any application rules that were generated on first launch of the application.  So if you launch new apps they will ask to add their firewall rules again on first launch.

Also check the entries in place in the following file;

C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\HOSTS

Open the file within an administrative notepad, see if any entries have been added to the HOSTS file in the bottom.  This file is used to bypass DNS and force an address to a certain location, a lot of blocking tools use it to prevent a DNS name being resolved and force it to 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0 (null) to prevent the traffic going anywhere.

 

ya there is this long list of ports and every single one of them is set to null. So, which one do I have to change to activate my OS and what do I have to change it to?

[Falconevo]

8 hours ago, Sirgeorge said:

ya there is this long list of ports and every single one of them is set to null. So, which one do I have to change to activate my OS and what do I have to change it to?

Can you copy/paste what is in there, I wouldn't know without seeing the DNS values.