Re: LAN connection fails

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DL,
A couple of items in response; 1) Over the past 7 years of "house call" volunteering, I have yet to give up and reinstall, and 2) I have SP2 on my USB Flash Memory.

I do want to connect long enough to update the AVG and Ad-Aware for a final scan before installing SP2 and the remaining 70+ critical updates since then.
"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message news:%23dtm4QDiHHA.1312@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Gum tree and paddle springs to mind.
I dont suppose you have win2k cd to start from scratch with a known clean
sys?
You can download, burn latest sp to cd, to update prior to connecting

"Charles W Davis" <Anthemwebs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Charles W Davis wrote:
>>
>> "JD" <JD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> Charles W Davis wrote:
>>>> I'm working on a Computer Club's lap top computer. Window XP Home. >>>> It
>>>> had the following problems.
>>>> 1. Couldn't connect to the internet.
>>>> Checking the status of the Local Area connection on the Support tab,
>>>> the status reads:
>>>> "You might not be able to access the Internet or some network
>>>> resources. This problem occurred because the network did not assign >>>> a
>>>> network address to the computer."
>>>>
>>>> To restart the connection and try to establish full connectivity,
click
>>>> Repair. I did and the Repair responds with "Windows could not finish
>>>> repairing the problem because the following action cannot be
completed:
>>>> Renewing your IP Address."
>>>>
>>>> 2. McAfee had never been activated. Would not open.
>>>> 3. From a USB Flash drive I installed AVG Anti-virus, couldn't >>>> update
>>>> and removed 58 infected files, primarily Trojan horse downloaders.
>>>> 4. From the flash drive I installed Ad-Aware SE Personal, couldn't
>>>> update and removed 243 spyware and related stuff.
>>>> 5. From the flash drive I installed AVG Anti-Spyware, couldn't >>>> update
>>>> and removed additional 58 spyware stuff.
>>>> 6. Since the LAN connection work on my other computer, I thought
maybe
>>>> the on-board connection may be bad so I inserted a LAN connection
>>>> device. Same problem connecting to the internet.
>>>> 7. Installed Belarc Advisor and discovered that there were no
hotfixes
>>>> ever applied. None.
>>>> 8. Using HiJackThis I removed several "nasties."
>>>>
>>>> Still no internet connection.
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Are you using a router or connecting directly to a cable modem?
>>>
>>> If you're connecting directly to a cable modem, try rebooting the
modem
>>> when you change to the CC's lap top.
>
>>
>> I am using a Router between the computers (three) and the Modem.
>
> If you are really sure that the computer is now completely
> malware/virus-free, repair the winsock. You don't mention whether or > not
> you have SP2 (I certainly hope you do), so here are instructions for
both
> SP2 and pre-SP2:
>
> If SP2 is installed, Start>Run>cmd [enter]
> netsh winsock reset catalog [enter]
> Reboot
>
> If SP2 is not installed, run WinsockXPFix.exe:
> http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html - WinsockXPFix.exe
>
>
> Malke
> -- > Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
Malke,
A couple of problems. I repeat there have been no hotfixes applied, no
SP2.
I can't be sure that the system is malware free. I can't update AVG or any
of the other malware programs. If I was sure that it was clean, I would
install SP2.




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