Why Is My Firewall Blocking Everything Updated -

Then I checked the audit log. Timestamps from 3:17 AM. Every two seconds, an entry: “Filtering platform policy change.” And then, at 3:18 AM: “Windows Filtering Platform base filtering engine stopped.” Restarted at 3:19 AM with a new configuration. The configuration had exactly one rule:

The second line: “DO NOT DISABLE ME.” why is my firewall blocking everything

I ran a rootkit scan. Nothing. Malwarebytes: clean. System file checker: no integrity violations. So it wasn't a virus. It was something stranger. Then I checked the audit log

The file doesn’t exist anymore. But the firewall still remembers its name. The configuration had exactly one rule: The second

I didn’t have a “she.” I lived alone. My last relationship ended two years ago. But the driver was real. It was running. It had full network stack interception. And it was updating itself every night at 3:17 AM from an IP address that geolocated to… my own apartment building. The apartment directly below mine.

The third line: “SHE WILL COME BACK IF YOU DO.”

I opened the advanced security console. Inbound rules: empty. Outbound rules: empty. Connection security rules: empty. That was odd. Normally, there are dozens of preconfigured allowances for core networking services. Someone—or something—had wiped the slate clean.