Hi All,
I've avoided re-building my laptop after 3 days of intensive virus scanning and installing hotfixes via usb key drive (FYI I was patched up and running AV before I got hit but sadly still had to repair XP as key system files got deleted too before I could stop the virus - still not sure which one I caught - and concerned about that too).
I've now installed Windows XP SP2 RC1 to be as patched as possible. One thing still stopped me from getting back on the net - my TCPIP sockets were causing errors (IPRIP event errors among others in the logs)
One of the major things that happened was that my TCPIP sockets got 'blown up' by this virus (btw was unable to identify it in the scanning but have run deep scans and not picked up anything else - I think it was Sasser but not 100% as which virus blows your TCP/IP sockets?)
A great tip I found out there was this tool for fixing the registry winsock entries:
This tool was a great help for me to fix my TCP/IP and got me back up. The problem now is that while my LAN connection is behaving gracefully my WiFI one is being petulent. Excuse my ignorance for this next bit: after uninstalling and re-installing LAN and WiFi drivers then running WinSockFix everything was fine but because I was not satisified with the WiFi (! Doh) I reinstalled the driver again then it went back to previous state and stopped behaving gracefully - specifically the adapter is fine as had been using it but there seems to be an issue with the DHCP and address assignment. The WiFi connection will connect to the WiFi router no problem but it cannot 'repair' i.e. it (WiFI connection) appears to be having trouble with its DHCP client management for the adapter - the LAN connection using same router is fine.
Any ideas?
Hope a bright spark can lend a hand.
Regards,
Ed
I've avoided re-building my laptop after 3 days of intensive virus scanning and installing hotfixes via usb key drive (FYI I was patched up and running AV before I got hit but sadly still had to repair XP as key system files got deleted too before I could stop the virus - still not sure which one I caught - and concerned about that too).
I've now installed Windows XP SP2 RC1 to be as patched as possible. One thing still stopped me from getting back on the net - my TCPIP sockets were causing errors (IPRIP event errors among others in the logs)
One of the major things that happened was that my TCPIP sockets got 'blown up' by this virus (btw was unable to identify it in the scanning but have run deep scans and not picked up anything else - I think it was Sasser but not 100% as which virus blows your TCP/IP sockets?)
A great tip I found out there was this tool for fixing the registry winsock entries:
This tool was a great help for me to fix my TCP/IP and got me back up. The problem now is that while my LAN connection is behaving gracefully my WiFI one is being petulent. Excuse my ignorance for this next bit: after uninstalling and re-installing LAN and WiFi drivers then running WinSockFix everything was fine but because I was not satisified with the WiFi (! Doh) I reinstalled the driver again then it went back to previous state and stopped behaving gracefully - specifically the adapter is fine as had been using it but there seems to be an issue with the DHCP and address assignment. The WiFi connection will connect to the WiFi router no problem but it cannot 'repair' i.e. it (WiFI connection) appears to be having trouble with its DHCP client management for the adapter - the LAN connection using same router is fine.
Any ideas?
Hope a bright spark can lend a hand.
Regards,
Ed