Help! Windows 98 and the Internet!

[ICEVaPa]

Hey people,

I?ve got a bit of a problem; a friend of mine had a really old, pathetic computer. 233 MHz I think. 32mb ram. You get the point.

Now it was dying, would take ages just to get into windows and move yourself around. He asked me to help him.

So I plugged his HD in my computer. Ran Virus Scans, Ad-aware, checked the disk ect. Found some viruses, a Trojan and ad ware. Killed it all.

I also got rid of allot of unnecessary start-up junk.

So I plugged it back, booted it up. Running much better.

However, now when I connect up to the ISP (56k modem) it makes a connection, sends a few bytes, receives a few. But when I try use IE or Outlook it won?t work. It acts as if I have not connected to the internet. Wont even load Yahoo buttons ect.

Could one of the virus been in an important IE file or something else?

Please I really need some help on this one. The family is not doing well financially and they can?t afford a new comp or a professional to come in.

I really need help.

Thanks,

ICE

 

[LTC8K6]

Viruses and spyware often mess up IE. If you are sure you have the drive clean, then you can repair IE in windows 98. I believe you do it through add/remove programs in control panel.

 

[montag451]

either that, or navigate to the windows/inf folder,
look for iesetup, right click - install.
might work.

 

[ICEVaPa]

Thanks guys, Im going to the persons house tomorrow to try fix it once again.

Does anyone know where i could fin a full installation of IE6 incase i cant find the setup once im there.

Thanks again. Ill let you know how it goes.

 

[montag451]

should be able to dl from msoft, or look at the pc magzines with a cdrom, they sometimes have rounds of putting on past software - I would try opera.
Faster, uses less memory - more configurable - has mouse gestures [can do lots of things like close pages, back, forward etc by clicking the mouse a certain way]
WOW i luuuuurrrve it.

 

[montag451]

Oh - yeah -
easy to import all your stuff from ie as well. in fact, it is the only time i have had complete success with importing from IE

 

[ICEVaPa]

Thanks montag451, ye i use opera and firefox - Im gonna sugest ti to them.
However i need to get IE working as it effects Outlook aswel.

 

[montag451]

if the inf thing doesnt work , try uninstalling IE through
add/remove programs
windows setup

then reboot, then reverse the process.
make sure you have the win98 disk to hand though, just in case.

 

[amdskip]

IE6 link

Sounds like you may have winsock issues. Download winsockxp fix and run it.

 

[ICEVaPa]

Thanks guys, got it working!!!

@amdskip - yup, that was the problem, got a winsock fix for win98 and it worked. Thanks alot.