01-05-2006, 04:24 PM
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Re: Browser won't access network (Thanks Frank!!)
Bill wrote:
> Be it known on this group that Frank Saunders is a god! I simply ran
> LSP-Fix once, clicked Finish, and everything is now working. Frank, we had
> backups of all data, but you probably saved us a day of work reformatting
> and reinstalling Windows and all my wife's applications and settings. (And,
> at that, there's probably a lot that might have taken much longer to
> straighten out.) FYI and FWIW, it was McAfee's removal routine, perhaps in
> conjunction with the previous VirusScan version, that caused this last
> Sunday. Thank you, thank you.
>
> --Bill & Linda
>
> "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote ...
> > "Bill" wrote ...
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > This is just a shot in the dark. My wife was upgrading her virus
> > > scanning (McAfee 7 to 10) on her Win98SE machine. Now, even after
> > > uninstalling and removing EVERYTHING related to McAfee, her machine
> > > will no longer access the access the network *with the browser*.
> > > (Ethernet, Linksys router, DSL Internet)
> > >
> > > I can ping the router and other stations; other stations can ping her
> > > machine; I can even ping web sites with their IP!! All Internet
> > > Options are at the defaults, and all the network properties (TCP/IP,
> > > etc) are as they have been for the several years this machine has
> > > been working fine. The only possibility is that one of the changes
> > > McAfee required to Internet Options -- or the crashing of the McAfee
> > > installation -- disabled browser access to the network.
> > >
> > > I'm at the end of the line with this. I can't think of anything
> > > other than *reformatting the drive and reinstalling Windows*! Is
> > > there anyone who can help!!
> > >
> > > --Bill
> >
> > download a copy of LSP-Fix - a free program to repair damaged Winsock 2
> > stacks (all Windows versions) so that the program will be available after
> > removing the spyware.
> > http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
> > Winsockfix for W95, W98, ME, NT, 2000, XP
> > http://www.tacktech.com/pub/winsockfix/WinsockFix.zip
> > Directions here: http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=257
> >
> > --
> > Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
> > Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
> > http://www.fjsmjs.com
> > Protect your PC
> > http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
> >
> >
> >
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