What is the worm that kills your Internet?

stuman19

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I downloaded some themes for changing my logon screen and all of a sudden my internet is gone. I ran my virus scanner (Panda) and spyware protecter (MS) and came up with nothing. All of a sudden I don't receive an IP address or anything. I tried reseting (sp) the router but that did nothing. A little help?

Stu
 

Brian48

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Are you running Win2k/XP? Check your HOSTS file under your c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc directory. Open it with Notepad. Generally, it should only have the following text in it if it hasn't been touched since you've first installed Windows.

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost

Sometimes, viruses or worms will write to this file, literally listing dozens to hundreds of IPs/addresses, thus blocking you from most of the real world. You should remove this crap when found.
 

Matthias99

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If you recently removed some spyware, or installed anything suspicious, you might need to run a utility called LSPFix (google for it and you'll find it easily). Some spyware embeds itself in your network protocol stacks, and forcibly removing it can break your networking capabilities. If that and the hosts file don't fix it, check out the spyware thread in the Software forum for more advice.
 

stuman19

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Jul 13, 2002
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Originally posted by: Brian48
Are you running Win2k/XP? Check your HOSTS file under your c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc directory. Open it with Notepad. Generally, it should only have the following text in it if it hasn't been touched since you've first installed Windows.

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost

Sometimes, viruses or worms will write to this file, literally listing dozens to hundreds of IPs/addresses, thus blocking you from most of the real world. You should remove this crap when found.

Yes I have XP. It makes my connection status low for my WIRED network. Is it the winsock worm?

 

stuman19

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Jul 13, 2002
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Originally posted by: Matthias99
If you recently removed some spyware, or installed anything suspicious, you might need to run a utility called LSPFix (google for it and you'll find it easily). Some spyware embeds itself in your network protocol stacks, and forcibly removing it can break your networking capabilities. If that and the hosts file don't fix it, check out the spyware thread in the Software forum for more advice.

That worked....thanks
 

CraigRT

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Originally posted by: stuman19
Originally posted by: Matthias99
If you recently removed some spyware, or installed anything suspicious, you might need to run a utility called LSPFix (google for it and you'll find it easily). Some spyware embeds itself in your network protocol stacks, and forcibly removing it can break your networking capabilities. If that and the hosts file don't fix it, check out the spyware thread in the Software forum for more advice.

That worked....thanks

I have used that before too on a system..worked awesome. good advice matthias99 :D
 

gsellis

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Nevermind - Don't read a thread and reply 30 minutes later...

Strike out -> Device Manager is green, correct? Any error message when you do IPCONFIG /RENEW from a command prompt window?