Trying to FInd the Source of a Hijack or Virus in Windows XP

[jakatz]

I am working on cleaning up a laptop for a client of mine. I was able to remove many of the BHO's on the machine and ohter non-sense which was bogging down this poor laptop, but I am having trouble finding the source of the following problem - If anyone has any knowledge of this one let me know . . .

I go into a command prompt and type the standard "IPCONFIG" and for each of the adapters (both wired and wireless), I am getting (in the exact mixed case as shown below), the following:

"Ethernet adapter CoNnEcTiOn Is NoT wOrKiNg"

And in the "Choose a wireless network" GUI Window, the title bar reads as follows (also in the exact mixed case shown):

'CoNnEcTiOn Is WoRkInG"

Note that in both instances (in the GUI and Command Prompt, I am getting a valid IP Address from my ISP and I am in fact on the net with that machine).

I have run Windows Defender and Norton AntiVirus, and aside from some adware, etc. it apparently is not detecting the source of what is causing this. I have also perfomed an "IPCONFIG /RELEASE" and "/RENEW" as well as a "/FLUSHDNS", but to no avail.

Anyone have any clue as to what might be causing this?

 

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