WININET.DLL Problems

[DemonEdge]

My friend was told by his norton anti virus that he had some dangerous infections on his PC. After downloading Avast 4.1 free trial and scanning his PC he detected a trojan horse and proceeded to delete it. Then after rebooting his PC after logging in thru the users page he got the error message saying 'applications failed to load e.t.c wininet.dll is missing, replace the missing dll file to fix the problem' or something along those lines. After the message nothing loads up and he is faced with a blank desktop with no start bar.

Now using his other PC he has downloaded the missing dll and now he needs to know if there's anyway he can transfer it onto his downstairs PC.

P>s Will all his data/hardware sotrage/work be lost ior corrupted?

 

[imported_Phil]

You'd have better luck posting this in the Operating Systems forum.

 

[arcenite]

Google LSP fix. Download it. Love it.

 

[AMCRambler]

Originally posted by: DemonEdge
My friend was told by his norton anti virus that he had some dangerous infections on his PC. After downloading Avast 4.1 free trial and scanning his PC he detected a trojan horse and proceeded to delete it. Then after rebooting his PC after logging in thru the users page he got the error message saying 'applications failed to load e.t.c wininet.dll is missing, replace the missing dll file to fix the problem' or something along those lines. After the message nothing loads up and he is faced with a blank desktop with no start bar.

Now using his other PC he has downloaded the missing dll and now he needs to know if there's anyway he can transfer it onto his downstairs PC.

P>s Will all his data/hardware sotrage/work be lost ior corrupted?

Couple ways to go about getting the file back on there. First is if the file is small enough to fit on a floppy you can boot to a command prompt by hitting F8 just before the windows loading screen comes up.
If that doesn't work you can always use a Windows 98 bootdisk to get a command prompt, but if the drive is formatted ntfs, you will be unable to copy the file. If it's fat32 you'll have no problem.
Third way, take the drive out of the machine downstairs and hook it up as a slave on the pc upstairs. Then boot up and copy the file to the hard disk.

 

[Markbnj]

This file has changed in SP2 as well, so make sure that the one he downloaded matches the one on the system originally. I had a similar issue with a machine last year, where wininet.dll became infected and was propagating adware packages. I got a copy of it off of another SP2 system and moved it over, and everything worked fine.

 

[DemonEdge]

Alright. Big update. My friend downloaded the dll from his other PC and using task manager copied it from his floppy to the system32 folder. Now when he boots up nothing loads and desktop stays blank and flashes. He also gets some errors at the start because Steam (valves gaming system) automatically starts at start up. Basically no applications work but the dll error doesn't appear anymore. Does anyone have any suggestions now?

 

[AMCRambler]

I've had problems with the desktop loading up when my user profile has become corrupted due to me cleaning spyware off my pc. If he can backup his profile under c:\Document and Settings to another folder and then just delete the profile folder, Windows should create a new one when he logs in. He'll have to copy his favorites, addressbook, email, etc from the backup folder but if the problem is with the profile it should get you to your desktop at least.

 

[DemonEdge]

update: LSP fixed the problem. Thanks.