Workgroup Neworking - Can't see a computer

From: Paul Goldman (paulgoldman1948_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/09/05 

Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 05:03:09 GMT

I have a client with a small workgroup based LAN, with 2 Windows XP Home
computers and 2 Windows 98 computers. Last year I set up the workgroup with
a shared folder for all computers to use (a poor man's server). This small
workgroup was part of a larger network behind a firewall/router with IP
addresses 192.168.x.y.

Yesterday we installed a separate DSL line for this LAN, and since my
internet router was backorder, I decided to plug the PCs into the Netopia
router that SBC supplied. Each of the PCs received a new IP address from the
Netopia router. Before I left for the evening, I made sure that all of the
computers could see the shared folder on the "server".

This afternoon, my client called me telling me he had a "virus" that kept
shutting down his system (the Windows XP home system with the shared
folder), and that he "restored" the system per instructions from Dell. When
I arrived, I found that his machine was infected with a lot of adware, so I
downloaded the new Microsoft Spyware beta and cleaned up his system. Since
then, I cannot get any of the other computers to see the shared folder or
any of the other shared resources on his machine. I can browse from his
machine and can see the shared folder, but cannot from any other machine.
The computer shows up on the Network Neighborhood browser, but no resources
are available.

Any suggestions?

In addition, the other Windows XP Home machine is similarly infected with
Adware. Although I'm not behind a firewall now, how can these machines get
infected so quickly?

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