do some update programs work without TCP/IP?

[PlatinumGold]

i've got a clients machine that's been devasted by spyware.

i can't get an IP address using "IPCONFIG" and IE doesn't work, and yet, my spyware programs seem to be able to download updates and NAV downloaded updates too.

how does that work?

 

[spidey07]

something is hosed with the TCP/IP stack. It uses different dlls for different functions.

I don't have a link but somebody just fixed theirs...check a couple of pages worth of posts in this forum.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: spidey07
something is hosed with the TCP/IP stack. It uses different dlls for different functions.

I don't have a link but somebody just fixed theirs...check a couple of pages worth of posts in this forum.

ya, i've reloaded tcp/ip stacks before.

i was just wondering if update downloading used a different protocol than standard web browsing.

 

[JackMDS]

Link to: How to Reset Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in Windows XP.

:sun:

 

[Nothinman]

i was just wondering if update downloading used a different protocol than standard web browsing.

Considering no Internet router should route anything but TCP/IP that seems very unlikely.

 

[TechnoPro]

I can't find the official link, but this software works miracles when spyware messes up the TCP/IP stack.

 

[JackMDS]

Link to: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html

:sun:

 

[TechnoPro]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
Link to: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html

:sun:

Thanks, Jack. I was looking for a bona fide DL link.

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: TechnoPro

Originally posted by: JackMDS
Link to: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html

:sun:

Thanks, Jack. I was looking for a bona fide DL link.

You are welcome.

BTW. I knew where this proggie can be found.

However I was curious why Google did not pick it up.

Try to type into Google WinsockXPFix without the .exe and look at the second result.

It usually much better not to type suffixes since a lot of indexing it done on term not individual files, files also might be compressed and thus have zip gz rar or whatever in the extention.

:sun:

 

[Eltano1]

That program is great, it works like a champ in one of my PCs' Client that was also devastated by all kind of crap (including AOL)

Best regards

Eltano

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

i was just wondering if update downloading used a different protocol than standard web browsing.

Considering no Internet router should route anything but TCP/IP that seems very unlikely.

Hmm? What about UDP, ICMP and all that other good stuff? IP, yes, but not necessarily TCP.

 

[Nothinman]

Hmm? What about UDP, ICMP and all that other good stuff? IP, yes, but not necessarily TCP.

Those are all part of IP.

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Hmm? What about UDP, ICMP and all that other good stuff? IP, yes, but not necessarily TCP.

Those are all part of IP.

Sorry to be so picky, but he did say tcp (even though it was ip that he actually cared about).

Edit: I guess I'm running my mouth (err, fingers? 😕 ) where I'm not really qualified to do so. Routers don't even work at the tcp level do they? Just IP and whatever things like tracing protocols are used to manage traffic at the network layer? Like I said, I'm not qualified...

 

[Nothinman]

Routers don't even work at the tcp level do they?

Generally no, but they can for special cases. Like all of the fixups in IOS mess with things above the IP level and PAT technically does too since ports are above the IP layer.

Sorry to be so picky, but he did say tcp (even though it was ip that he actually cared about).

But it's irrelevant since TCP runs on top of IP anyway.