Recent content by higgins

I'm adding 1-2 drives to my Dell 4700 (music server w/ a backup drive). One IDE drive will be in a Kingwin removable tray that has a fan underneath. But I'd nevertheless like to add another fan. I don't really see anywhere to readily hang an additional fan. But I've run across a couple of...

sucks. cost me a weekof tinkering over this bs norton. grrr

SOLVED!!!!! It wasn't the spyware, it was our old friend NORTON!!!! Uninstalling Norton Antivirus left DHCP dependent on a file, SYMTDI. DHCP wouldn't run without the file. Digging through regedit let me trim SYMTDI out of the dependencies. Thanks for all your help!!!! For future...

I'm starting to appreciate your stance on this. I do this kind of stuff occassionally, but I've NEVER worked on a machine with as many malware problems as this one, so have never hit this kind of major snag. What sucks now, of course, is that I'm SOOOOOO close. I think I've nailed every...

OK, I ran Winsockfix, then exectuted this command C:\>netsh int ip reset c:\newstack.log -> release ->renew -> reboot but it didn't resolve the problem. Is there some protocol I should reinstall??? Is there something else I can try?? totally maddening...Still connecting, but DHCP simply...

I ran winsockfix earlier, but will try again. Then I'll try the netsh command. Thx.

I'm revising an earlier post because I've learned more about the problem. I'm making soooo much progress cleaning a friend's laptop of spyware, trojan dialers and viruses. (500 virus-infected files on one pass). But the process has really impaired my connectivity. I appear to have lost...

can you run netstumbler or something similar?? I'm wondering what else might be lurking in the neighborhood. And I would just get rid of the cordless phone and replace it with a 900mhz phone.

OK, I "removed" all three files, rebooted but still have the same problem. I connects to the my network, but not the Internet. What else should I be looking at? And should I do a system restore to pre-LSP Fix??? ?

Great. I just like to make SURE before I muck with these things....thx. I'll try it tonight..

OK, I've run LSPfix on "basic" mode to no obvious affect. I'm loathe to click the "I know what I'm doing" box, since I don't. The "keep" window says: mswsock.dll TCPIP winrnr.dll NTDS rsvpsp.dll [Protocl handler] Should I be moving any or all of these to the Remove box, then his...

Eeek. LSP-Fix does come with some pretty stern warnings... Into the Valley of Death. I hope a registry backup will be all I need to protect myself. "Removing the wrong LSPs from your computer by mistake can make your computer unstable and possibly unable to communicate over a network...

Wow, winsocks. I haven't thought about these since the good old days of installing Trumpet Winsock on my office PC to get it to connect to the Internet. Early 1990s? Looks like LSPfix is the best one for me and Windows Xp Can't wait to try it. This is pretty maddening. "Yes, the good news I...

I've been cleaning a friend's laptop of some atrocious virus, spyware and trojan dialer problems. I've got most of it licked, but have one big remaining problem: the laptop no longer recognizes the Internet. MSIE was for a while summoning a dialer. No longer. But while it established a...

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