Spyware is screwed up my connection: DHCP? [trojan dialers] [pentium 3]
Re:me too -I smell a class action suit for lost time
Re:sucks. cost me a weekof tinkering over this bs norton. grrr
Re:Also Found This after the fact http://www.bl.com/moshe/text/quiddities/norton_errors.html
Re:Thanks, Thanks Thanks ! It wasn't exactly that fix, as the reference to SYMTDI was gone. After putting in a new motherboard < I ran AVG Virus and it found 15 trojans that Norton couldn't see. I thought Let me take that piece of S**t out and then lost the internet and network connections. I thought it was the syware that had done it. I nearly lost my mind. I tried everything- a windows repair, all manner of winsock fixes, other spyware programs. A week of searching finally lead me to this thread. I reinstalled Norton and voila all returned to normal. I am really pissed, talk about malware , if you try to remove it it takes out your connection. I will never use Norton again in any computer I build or use.
Re:And if you want to take that risk, that of going through these steps only to not have it work then you are welcome to it. I know the methods of repairing a windows installation. I've only done it a several hundred times in my career. It's a personal choice and one in which I am extremely comfortable in expressing. Knock yo self out with a windows repair. There was a time when I might have gone that route myself and I certainly wouldn't discourage you or anyone else from trying that as a methodology. INstalling in another directory than windows, no, but repair perhaps. And on my personal machine I might very well try some things however my machines only get minor issues with malware because it's properly protected. If the issues are severe a format is usually the quickest solution, as odd as that is to say. Point I am making here is that is how I have decided to move forward when working on other peoples PC's with this kind of a problem and more often than not, I will save time with it. Many times significant amounts of time.
There are less drastic options such as repair, or reinstalling windows to the same directory -
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Originally posted by: guy
I am sure you do not want to do this however I have just recently adopted a new policy for the small amount of side work and work on relative's PC's. I don't remove spyware. I format, reinstall windows, then use a personal firewall (Kerio), MS Anti Spyware software, an A/V (Antivir Free) and Firefox. I spent an entire weekend working on a woman's desktop from work only to fail ultimately after removing several dozen viruses and hundreds of Malware/Spyware files. I never could clean it completely and since I couldn't really charge her what it would be worth for my time I lost out on that deal. Malware has overtaken Viruses by an incredibly wide margin and unfortunately the removal tools just cannot clean some of them totally or completely. In my opinion the only way to fight this problem is avoidance. Firefox, the A/V, firewall and antispyware app, while not foolproof is a pretty decent way to stop this problem from happening. Enough of that diatribe. My point is, I'd cut my losses and reinstall anytime you work on this sort of a problem for anyone or don't work on it at all. Perhaps not practical for you but that's my new policy.
Amen!
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Re:Originally posted by: guy
I am sure you do not want to do this however I have just recently adopted a new policy for the small amount of side work and work on relative's PC's. I don't remove spyware. I format, reinstall windows, then use a personal firewall (Kerio), MS Anti Spyware software, an A/V (Antivir Free) and Firefox. I spent an entire weekend working on a woman's desktop from work only to fail ultimately after removing several dozen viruses and hundreds of Malware/Spyware files. I never could clean it completely and since I couldn't really charge her what it would be worth for my time I lost out on that deal. Malware has overtaken Viruses by an incredibly wide margin and unfortunately the removal tools just cannot clean some of them totally or completely. In my opinion the only way to fight this problem is avoidance. Firefox, the A/V, firewall and antispyware app, while not foolproof is a pretty decent way to stop this problem from happening. Enough of that diatribe. My point is, I'd cut my losses and reinstall anytime you work on this sort of a problem for anyone or don't work on it at all. Perhaps not practical for you but that's my new policy.
Amen!
Re:SOLVED!!!!! It wasn't the spyware, it was our old friend NORTON!!!! Uninstalling Norton Antivirus left DHCP dependent on a file, SYMTDI. DHCP wouldn't run without the file. Digging through regedit let me trim SYMTDI out of the dependencies. Thanks for all your help!!!!
For future reference, there's good guidance in this usenet message
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web/browse_thread/thread/f42583e50d3bf7c1?tvc=2&q=%22error+1068%22+dhcp
Re:Originally posted by: guy
I don't remove spyware. I format, reinstall windows, then use a personal firewall (Kerio), MS Anti Spyware software, an A/V (Antivir Free) and Firefox. My point is, I'd cut my losses and reinstall anytime you work on this sort of a problem for anyone or don't work on it at all. Perhaps not practical for you but that's my new policy.
I'm starting to appreciate your stance on this. I do this kind of stuff occassionally, but I've NEVER worked on a machine with as many malware problems as this one, so have never hit this kind of major snag.
What sucks now, of course, is that I'm SOOOOOO close. I think I've nailed every problem except this one. If I can get DHCP back, then I can delete all the system restore points that might have nasties embedded in them. So I'd hate to surrender at this point.
I any case, my friend doesn't have her original Toshiba discs any longer nor does she have an restore partition, so reinstalling is no easy option.
Re:There are less drastic options such as repair, or reinstalling windows to the same directory -Windows setup will ask if you want to delete the previous installation which can be done without reformatting. I wonder if system file checker or sfc.exe would help; http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html -I know this has helped me in the past.
Re:I am sure you do not want to do this however I have just recently adopted a new policy for the small amount of side work and work on relative's PC's. I don't remove spyware. I format, reinstall windows, then use a personal firewall (Kerio), MS Anti Spyware software, an A/V (Antivir Free) and Firefox. I spent an entire weekend working on a woman's desktop from work only to fail ultimately after removing several dozen viruses and hundreds of Malware/Spyware files. I never could clean it completely and since I couldn't really charge her what it would be worth for my time I lost out on that deal. Malware has overtaken Viruses by an incredibly wide margin and unfortunately the removal tools just cannot clean some of them totally or completely. In my opinion the only way to fight this problem is avoidance. Firefox, the A/V, firewall and antispyware app, while not foolproof is a pretty decent way to stop this problem from happening. Enough of that diatribe. My point is, I'd cut my losses and reinstall anytime you work on this sort of a problem for anyone or don't work on it at all. Perhaps not practical for you but that's my new policy.
Re:OK, I ran Winsockfix, then exectuted this command
C:\>netsh int ip reset c:\newstack.log -> release ->renew -> reboot
but it didn't resolve the problem. Is there some protocol I should reinstall??? Is there something else I can try?? totally maddening…Still connecting, but DHCP simply doesn't work.
Re:Look at this page toward the end: Link to: Basic Steps in cleaning Internet "Junk". (http://www.ezlan.net/clean.html)
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Re:I ran winsockfix earlier, but will try again. Then I'll try the netsh command. Thx.
Re:C:\>netsh int ip reset c:\newstack.log -> release ->renew -> reboot
or
find WinsockxpFix.exe
-These reset the tcpip stack which appears to be the most common connectivity problem associated with spyware.
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