Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] windows windows windows!

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mark Rages wrote:
> 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
> EMAIL:PROTECTED

You might try lspfix - http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm - it worked well 
for me.

Or try entering the specific text of the error you get into google and 
looking at the various entries.
_______________________________________________
discussion mailing list
EMAIL:PROTECTED
http://mlug.missouri.edu/mailman/listinfo/discussion