Re: Limited or No Connectivity

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:25:03 -0700, Cookie wrote:

Now in my hacking around I manually scanned the Desktop with AVG just to
make sure that there was nothing there. To my surprise I found this:

Shell32.dll Change c:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll
hosts Change c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

Now my question is why do these two files show "Change" when all the rest of
them show "OK"?

Is this because a virus or trojan horse got in there and changed something
or is it because these two items have been update by windows update? What
you think?

What influence would these two files have on the networtk, DHCP or system
operation if they were corrupted?

Cookie,

the hosts file can redirect addresses. It's a plain text file.
Could you post its contents here? Meanwhile you can also rename
it for a test, for example from hosts to hosts.txt or anything
else. You shouldn't actually need it.

Shell32.dll should also be replaced, but that's a bit more
involved, because I believe the file is protected by the
operating system. Could be an infection, actually, but could
also be something harmless. Difficult to tell.

The fact that the notebook doesn't get an IP address through
DHCP is definitely not normal. The cause for this defect may or
may not be the cause of your problem.

Hans-Georg

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