Re: Workgroup Neworking - Can't see a computer
From: Paul Goldman (paulgoldman1948_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/16/05
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:14:36 GMT
Not until I reformatted the hard drive and installed XP Pro. (Works every
time!) I gave up after scanning several times and not being able to even get
onto the internet.
"Robert Jacobs" <rjacobs0spamfree@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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> More then likely they have been adding to it everyday. I have seen a few
> of my clients persistantly have adware on thier system, until I installed
> Spyware Doctor on thier systems anyway.
>
> Most just cant understand that just going to one site, even a Big national
> Site, can infect thier system with adware.
>
> Did you get the shared folder problem fixed?
>
>
> "Paul Goldman" <paulgoldman1948@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%VqOd.18943$BS.17156@twister.socal.rr.com...
>> Thanks for the advice. They have been on the internet for some time (over
>> a year) behind a firewall (actually a small Netgear internet router). The
>> only change I made was going to SBC and eliminating the firewall. Are you
>> suggesting that they picked up the adware before I made the change? (I
>> don't have day-to-day contact with them. I was brought in for this job).
>> "Robert Jacobs" <rjacobs0spamfree@pacbell.net> wrote in message
>> news:OAvU0WmDFHA.520@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>> Are you kidding? Visiting one website can infect a computer in seconds
>>> with hundreds of adware files and a firewall will not really stop adware
>>> from infecting a computer.
>>>
>>> Your other problem sounds like your file and printer sharing is turned
>>> off on your XP machine, which some adware can do..
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Paul Goldman" <paulgoldman1948@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:hQgOd.9187$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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