stupid MS antispyware

[ThePiston]

I installed a new mobo, reinstalled Windows and when the desktop came up, a MS AntiSpyware popup came up saying:

"An LPS (I think it said LPS) program is trying to control your connection - do you want to "Allow" or "Scan". I chose scan but nothing happend and now my internet connection is down and can't get an IP from my router. I know it's all hooked up correctly and I can ping my NIC card, so this is something else.

I scanned for Spyware but got nothing... it seems that somethign else is holding back my connection and I think it's MS (big surprise).

Is there an easy way to see what MS AntiSpyware is allowing and blocking? I went through all the panels in the Options but found nothing of interest.

TIA

 

[Blackforge]

It was probably a warning about Winsock LSP (Layered Service Provider)

Give this utility a shot. I had a similar problem with my antivirus software leaving in an extra entry in the Winsock2 registry entry.

http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm

 

[ThePiston]

I'll give it a shot but I'd rather just disable whatever the antispyware did to it. Does anyone know where you can enable whatever you disabled in MS antispyware?

 

[ThePiston]

well I tried the LSPfix and removed rsvpsp.dll and nothing happened. I thought it would be put in the "Add" column but once I removed it it's gone forever. I reinstalled Windows and it's still gone and my connection still doesn't work.

 

[ThePiston]

wow, i am a very stupid man. I have a Belkin Router and for some reason it filters macs that are connected physically instead of just wirelessly. So I had to add the new mobo's NIC mac to the "ok" list to be able to get onto the LAN.

 

[dnuggett]

In any event I'd toss the MS AntiSpyware. It's junk (at least it was too me). On a test box it didn't catch 6-7 spyware progs/cookies that Search and Destroy did.

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: ThePiston
wow, i am a very stupid man. I have a Belkin Router and for some reason it filters macs that are connected physically instead of just wirelessly. So I had to add the new mobo's NIC mac to the "ok" list to be able to get onto the LAN.

That sounds like a recipe for getting locked out altogether

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

@dnuggett: MS AS is actually very effective at what it does. No program is perfect however.

 

[nweaver]

MS AS doesn't catch tracking cookies, but works very well, and doesn't (seem) to hog resources

 

[ThePiston]

it's one of the good free "real-time" programs, but Istill use Adaware and Spybot andd so should everyone.