I connect to a wireless router, and I do not share my connection with anyone else. I have Verizon FIOS fiber internet service. After running some setup program of theirs, I noticed an icon (with two computers) appearing in my System tray, that said "Internet Gateway" if you hovered over it. Sometimes it would show "connected", but most of the time it would show "disconnected" (if it showed up at all).Lately, it has been showing up a lot, and showing up as "connected". My performance has also been suffering, so I decided to look more closely at this "Internet Gateway". I tried clicking on "disconnect", but it would not obey. When I clicked "Status", a box appeared showing "Internet" (globe), "My Computer", and "Intenet Gateway" (again, no typo.)I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to let a spelling error like this slip through into production (and never fix it with any Service Packs or Updates), but it would also make me suspect that someone had created a piece of malware that looked like the Internet Gateway, but did bad things and resisted be disabled. Can anyone confirm for me whether this is a legit Microsoft spelling error, or whether I should indeed suspect this process as malware?Thanks,G1 person got this answerI do too

Whoof! I guess I need to blow the dust off THIS post! Sorry it has taken me so long to get back on this.First: the frickin' thing DID come back, after I thought I had disabled it! Grrrr! Since that time, it has continued to come and go randomly with reboots.Second: Jack, thanks for your tips. I did go to the site you recommended, and followed the tips to turn off ICS. I don't HAVE that option on the indicated screen, possibly because I am not using Windows Firewall (I use McAfee, and the two don't play well together.) HOWEVER, on THIS page:http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_ics/internetgateway.htm... if you scroll down a ways, you'll see the directions for enabling ICS on a Windows 95/98SE/Me machine. The screenshot displayed there (just under the phrase "Click theDisable or Disconnect button to turn off the server's Internet connection") is EXACTLY what I am seeing (right down to the misspelling of "Intenet"!!!) Ditto for the picture of the System Tray icon that they show.So SOMETHING has loaded this old version of the Gateway (I am running Windows XP Pro). As it is running on my computer, the "disable" button does nothing. I'm sure the program is not doing anything helpful. Any ideas about how I can get rid of this thing? Registry hack?Thanks,G

HiTry to temporarily to Uninstall the 3rd party security.Enable Win XP firewall, switch Off ICS, and reinstall the Security.Or, log to the 3rd party support forum and see if they have a solution for it. Jack-MVP Windows Networking. WWW.EZLAN.NET

Hi, Jack,By "3rd party security", do you mean McAfee?I tried just turning on Windows Firewall, which asks if I want to start the "[Something]/ICS Service". Actually, I want to STOP the ICS service, but I went ahead and clicked "Yes" anyway. However, it did not alter the Advanced tab under Properties (for the Network Connection) where it appears that I should see a checkbox regarding ICS. So I was not able to turn ICS off.If my recollections are correct, this problem cropped up after installation of software for my Verizon Fios connection. Their tech support swears that they don't install anything like that (but then, that's THEIR tech support...) No uninstall available for their software. Presumably some files MUST have been installed which allow this Gateway to run; since it is the 95/98/ME version of the Gateway, I can't imagine how else they would have gotten on to my WinXP computer. Could you find out what files are required to run this old Gateway? I can then hunt them down and delete them.Thanks,G

Hi, Jack,By "3rd party security", do you mean McAfee?HiIf McAfee is running (or just disabled) and you run Windows Firewall on top of it, it would be worse, Not better.Try to uninstall and clean out the McAfee, then do it with Win Firewall, and if it works, and you opt to, you can install the McAfee again. Jack-MVP Windows Networking. WWW.EZLAN.NET

If McAfee is running (or just disabled) and you run Windows Firewall on top of it, it would be worse, Not better.Try to uninstall and clean out the McAfee, then do it with Win Firewall, and if it works, and you opt to, you can install the McAfee again.I did not (and would not) try to do much of anything with both McAfee and Win Firewall running. I understand that the two will interfere with each other. I just enabled Win Firewal momentarily, hoping it would give me access to the ICP control section. It did not. I'm sure that part of the problem here is that the version of Internet Gateway installed is for 95/98/ME, and that Win XP cannot talk to it.I'd really rather not uninstall McAfee if I can avoid it; I have lots of settings there, and I doubt that they'd be preserved.Perhaps I don't understand fully what it means to be an "MVP Windows Networking" - do you have some special connection to Windows Support so that you could ask them which files (and file dates) I would need to delete to get rid of this thing? Or (alternatively) what reg keys need to be changed to turn it off?Thanks,G

HiAt this point, I am out of options.May be someone else will “chime in” with better solution. Jack-MVP Windows Networking. WWW.EZLAN.NET

Thanks for trying to help, Jack. Do you know how to "bump" this back to "Cody - Support Engineer"? (He had marked an earlier response as an "answer".) If so, please do - maybe Cody can help.Thanks,G

Thanks for trying to help, Jack. Do you know how to "bump" this back to "Cody - Support Engineer"? (He had marked an earlier response as an "answer".) If so, please do - maybe Cody can help.Thanks,G1. You'd be better off starting a new thread ... the fact that this one is marked as "Answered" will keep many people from looking at it.2. Re your post last Sunday where you reference the Practically Networked site -- I'm not sure about the misspelling, but if you're seeing "Internet Gateway" in Network Connections, that's just your router via Microsoft UPnP. If you have a UPnP compliant router -- and most are, these days -- and you enable UPnP in the router's configuration utility (often the router's default), and you have the UPnP user interface enabled, you get the "Internet Gateway" icon in Network Connections. You can use the icon to configure the router without using the router's web interface. To turn UPnP on or off and for more information, open Windows Help & Support and type upnp in the search box:Windows detects existing UPnP devices as well as new devices when they are added. In both cases, an indicator is displayed in thenotification area to alert you when devices are detected. Also, UPnP devices are displayed in the My Network Places folder. To open My Network Places, clickStart , and then click My Computer . Under Other Places , click My Network Places . You can control a UPnP device by double-clicking its icon, or view its properties byright-clicking the icon and then clicking Properties .Also see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886257