Here's a weird one - ONLY IE works - all other internet connectivity is broken
primesuspect
Beepin n' BoopinDetroit, MI Icrontian
Windows XP Home. Tried both SP1a and SP2
Network hardware is good.
Tried SP2 to fix, didn't fix.
Did "reinstall TCP-IP" and also "Reset winsock defaults" (the netsh command thingy)
Did a REPAIR install - bringing it back to SP1a in the process.
This computer had a bad, bad spyware problem. I got rid of all the spyware, but in the process, winsock was corrupted or deleted or something.
Now, IE works fine. I can get on the internet with IE. However, all other internet apps are broken - firefox, email, symantec liveupdate, other windows services like MS Help, for example, AVG antivirus updates, etc. EVERYTHING is broken except for IE.
The only strange thing that I think MIGHT have something to do with it is that Norton Internet Security 2003 was on there, and it's turned OFF (the service has been disabled, etc.) but I cannot uninstall it. When I try to uninstall it, it gives me some crap about how I need to log in as an internet security admin to uninstall the program, but it can't launch the program due to NMAIN.EXE being missing. The spyware borked it bad.
Even if I enable the service, everything is still broken.
Any clues?
Network hardware is good.
Tried SP2 to fix, didn't fix.
Did "reinstall TCP-IP" and also "Reset winsock defaults" (the netsh command thingy)
Did a REPAIR install - bringing it back to SP1a in the process.
This computer had a bad, bad spyware problem. I got rid of all the spyware, but in the process, winsock was corrupted or deleted or something.
Now, IE works fine. I can get on the internet with IE. However, all other internet apps are broken - firefox, email, symantec liveupdate, other windows services like MS Help, for example, AVG antivirus updates, etc. EVERYTHING is broken except for IE.
The only strange thing that I think MIGHT have something to do with it is that Norton Internet Security 2003 was on there, and it's turned OFF (the service has been disabled, etc.) but I cannot uninstall it. When I try to uninstall it, it gives me some crap about how I need to log in as an internet security admin to uninstall the program, but it can't launch the program due to NMAIN.EXE being missing. The spyware borked it bad.
Even if I enable the service, everything is still broken.
Any clues?
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When I killed it during a windows session, access was still broken. However, when I killed it, physically deleted the file, and then rebooted, and it didn't have a chance to load upon system startup, it fixed the problem.