[MLUG - DISCUSSION] windows windows windows!

[Mark Rages <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

So I spent the afternoon today trying to clean out my sister-in-law's
spyware-infected Windows computer.  With alternating applications of
Ad-aware and Spybot-Search-and-Destroy I managed to remove the
offending spyware, then I installed XP Service Pack 2, set IE to 'high
security' settings, and installed Firefox.

But it's still not working right.  The browser works properly for a
minute or two after a reboot, then starts refusing to load web pages. 
Both Firefox and IE exhibit this behaviour. I can do 'ping
mlug.missouri.edu' and it works OK, but if I do 'telnet
mlug.missouri.edu 80' it immediately gives an error (which I should
have written down, but it was a type of connection refused error).

I had forgotten the pain of dealing with Windows.  The new versions
have a nicer look and feel, but underneath is the same crappy stuff I
used to deal with in NT4 before I went Linux-only in 1999.  I showed
my brother-in-law how the spyware was redirecting web traffic through
a data-collection site. He was fairly horrified -- he uses the
computer for internet banking and stock trading.  I'll give him a
Knoppix so he can do that stuff a little more securely.

Anyway, does anyone have suggestions for how I can figure out where
the networking problem is?

Regards,
Mark
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