Re: A strange win98 networking problem

From: Lei Hu (leihu_at_nojunk.com)
Date: 07/10/04 

Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 23:54:12 +1000

Hi Nimit,

Sorry I forgot to mention it, but no other TCP/IP applications work - cannot
FTP, cannot TELNET, etc...

Lei

"Nimit Mehta" <chocofilium@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:297a101c465f0$15f34f40$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> TCP/IP isnt the problem in this case since you are able to
> ping pong your gateway and other websites. Your IE is
> messed up ( I think..) Are you able to connect to other
> applications that use internet? like MSN messenger or
> yahoo messenger. Are you able to download files from FTP
> servers? There is no DNS problem either since you are able
> to ping the website using its address.
> try reinstalling IE.
> -Nimit
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi there,
> >
> >I have a windows 98 machine infected by a virus called
> something like Zafi.
> >I successfully cleaned it. However, after that networking
> doesn't work
> >properly.
> >
> >The win98 machine is one of the LAN that is connected to
> the Internet using
> >boardband. After cleaning, the machine is working fine
> inside the LAN. That
> >is, it can see/access all the other machines in the LAN,
> transfer files,
> >etc., but it cannot access the Internet. All the settings
> are correct.
> >What's strange is that:
> >
> >(1) It can ping the ISP's website (www.bigpond.com), but
> nothing else! Even
> >though I can ping the website, I cannot view the site
> using IE (other
> >machines can!).
> >
> >(2) It cannot ping/access other sites in the Internet,
> but tracert command
> >showed that the IP packets have already reached beyond
> the gateway of the
> >ISP.
> >
> >(3) Even though it's working fine inside the LAN, it
> cannot connect to the
> >terminal server, but it can ping/access the server and
> transfer files with
> >the server.
> >
> >What problem could it be??? Is there any tool that I can
> use to detect the
> >problem? I think netmon might (might not?) help, but I
> cannot find a proper
> >version for win98.
> >
> >By the way, TCP/IP is the only protocol installed. I even
> uninstalled and
> >reinstalled the TCP/IP part, but didn't help.
> >
> >Any idea please???
> >
> >Thanks in advance!!
> >
> >Lei
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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