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JustPlainJef   04-12-2004 at 12:31:21 AM

Posted in networks, but they suck up there and don't read nearly as much as we do...

I have four computers here. Two PC's (wife's laptop and my internet machine) have recently been infected with all kinds of spyware. Now, neither of them will connect to the internet or even pull a valid IP address from my Linksys WRT54G wireless router. In the process of removing the spyware, I killed something on my computer that I really shouldn't have. Now, I have a Packet Scheduler Miniport that won't start, cause it isn't in the registry anymore, but I can't uninstall it either becuase allegedly Windows needs it to start up. On her laptop, I have been removing spyware left and right but haven't changed the registry at all.

My IP's on both machines are 169.254.XXX.XXX. When I try to repair the connection I get "The following steps of the repair operation failed: Renewing the IP address. Please contact your network admin or ISP."

On her laptop, it sees the wireless connection just fine but it still won't get a good IP.

IPConfig /release won't do anything. IPConfig /renew tells me "An error occured while renewing interface blah: An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket."

On my gaming machine, I did /release, then /renew and it worked just like it is supposed to, so I know the router is working. Server also connects to internet just fine.

Does anyone have any ideas?? I don't mind re-installing XP on my machine, and it is about that time, but I don't want to dig out the restore disk for her laptop. Thanks!!

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Rick_Criswell   04-12-2004 at 02:47:10 PM
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First download AD-AWARE 6 and be sure to download the latest reference file after installation.

Next download SPYBOT- Search and Destroy. After installing update it also.

Run Adaware first and delete all that it finds.I use delete instead of Quarantine.

Now run Spybot. After searching for problems you should IMMUNIZE your computers. This stops most spyware from being installed.

For some reason on spybot I have trouble downloading updates from the default site. So I just change download site and it works fine.

Now on the hardware side I would uninstall the hardware and drivers and then reinstall. Some spyware is totally vicious and will change your DNS,IP,Default gateway etc. Pointing everything to there site.

Internet Explorer may also need to be reinstalled to rid itself of all of the changes made to it also.(locked search bars,redirects,locked options, etc...)

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JustPlainJef   04-12-2004 at 04:12:18 PM
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I ran both of those as well as a trojan cleaner... THe spyware seems to be gone. I still can't get the internet / IP configuration working on them though...

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jihiggs   04-12-2004 at 06:43:11 PM
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delete your nic card and reinstall. if that dont work delete the protocals and reinstall them.

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JustPlainJef   04-13-2004 at 04:41:34 AM
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I deleted the NIC on mine and it still isn't working, although I believe it is because of the Packet Scheduler Miniport that isn't working. Any idea of how to reinstall that??

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ksoth   04-13-2004 at 07:31:22 AM
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The same thing happened to me. What happened is when you removed the spyware, you removed a program that is an LSP (layered service provider) that hooks into winsock like a link in a chain. So, without that program there, that chain in winsock is broken, therefore basically just breaking your internet connection with it. You can try to use an LSP remover called LSP-fix, found here: <A HREF="http://cexx.org/lspfix.htm" target="_new">http://cexx.org/lspfix.htm</A>. That didn't work for me, so I had to reinstall Windows to fix the problem, but it may work for you.

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JustPlainJef   04-13-2004 at 02:19:17 PM
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Just bloody friggan wonderful.....

:mad:

I hate this shite!!

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