Re: can't repair winsock

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From: PA Bear (PABearMVP_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:28:48 -0500

1. Help with Hijackware
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
   http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/Darnit.htm
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Malware_Defence.htm
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/

2. After you've got rid of the hijackware:

http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html

3. Once you can connect:

Before You Connect a New Computer to the Internet
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/before_you_plug_in.html

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/default.asp 

-- 
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (Shell, IE/OE) & Security
Walrace wrote:
> Hello.
> After a crash, a virus scan and a few other troubles, I've lost my network
> connection.
> Trying Control Panel -> Network Connections -> right-click on an icon ->
> repair
> gives an error message.
> Trying ipconfig /renew fails with:
> "an operation was attempted on something that is not a socket".
>
> I tried the procedure given in knowledge base 817571 (+ the comments of
> "Xpuser" on usenet), namely:
> - export then delete the registry keys
> hklm\system\currentcontrolset\services\winsock(2)
> - reboot
> - reinstall tcpip: in a properties window of the network connections,
> install -> protocol -> add -> have disk -> "C:\Windows\inf", select tcpip,
> and this seems to work allright
> - reboot
> - and it still doesn't work.
>
> Now I'm not sure it is just a configuration issue: it might be that some
> essential files have been corrupted or even deleted during the previous
> troubles.
> During the virus scan I had to delete a file called
> C:\Windows\System32\aklsp.dll. I suspect this is related to my problem.
>
> So my questions:
> - is it possible to reinstall the files needed for the tcpip stack from
> the windows install cd?
> - are there other things that I shoud try?
>
> Thanks for any hint or idea.