Re: Workgroup Neworking - Can't see a computer

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From: Robert Jacobs (rjacobs0spamfree_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 02/09/05 

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 21:10:39 -0800

Are you kidding? Visiting one website can infect a computer in seconds with
hundreds of adware files and a firewall will not really stop adware from
infecting a computer.

Your other problem sounds like your file and printer sharing is turned off
on your XP machine, which some adware can do..

"Paul Goldman" <paulgoldman1948@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:hQgOd.9187$e11.4416@twister.socal.rr.com...
>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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