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Reinstall TCP/IP Stack
Name: suspect52732 Date: December 31, 2004 at 10:08:12 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 2.4/512
Comment:
The internet went out on one of our XP machines. I beileve the TCP/IP stack is corrupted, (when I ping 127.0.0.1 it says pinging then of saying the address it displays a wierd symbol not involved in the english language) I tried reinstalling the network card, now I want to try the TCP/IP stack. Also a note, I know the computer was infected with a trojan downloader at the least. I imagine it had alot of spyware etc... to. Thanks for any advice offered!
Name: Curt R Date: January 1, 2005 at 05:20:22 Pacific
Reply:
You can uninstall/reinstall the TCP/IP stack easily enough. Go into network properties and then go into the property sheet for your NIC. Click on TCP/IP to highlight it and then click the Remove button. Once it's removed, reboot then readd it and see if that doesn't clear things up.
If it does, may I recommend downloading Ad Aware and Spybot S&D and running them to remove spyware and you could also do an online virus scan at Trend Micro.
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Response Number 2
Name: suspect52732 Date: January 3, 2005 at 09:34:22 Pacific
Reply:
I fixed the glitch I was having. I found a usful tool online that will not only backup your current config (which is kind of dumb, who wants to backup a already damaged registry) it will also attempt to repair all aspects of the TCP/IP stack. On top of this it will also repair your winsock. Do a google search for:
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