Network problem after XP SP2 resolved!!!

After I installed XP SP2 I could no longer get a DHCP
address from my router. Even if I set a static IP, I
could not ping the router but I could ping myself.

I downloaded and ran WinSockXP Fix. Problem solved!!!!
http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html


Hope this helps others!

Dave

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

wrote on 20-Sep-2004 6:45 PM:
> After I installed XP SP2 I could no longer get a DHCP
> address from my router. Even if I set a static IP, I
> could not ping the router but I could ping myself.
>
> I downloaded and ran WinSockXP Fix. Problem solved!!!!
> http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html
>
>
> Hope this helps others!
>
> Dave

This is very interesting. You really should do a malware scan with
Ad-aware SE Personal and/or Spybot Search & Destroy and see if you have
malware on your system. Please do so and report back -- we need to know
whether pre-existing spyware is hosing the LSP stack or whether there is
some problem in SP2 itself. Thanks.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security

[Hans-Georg Michna]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:45:50 -0700, >
wrote:

>After I installed XP SP2 I could no longer get a DHCP
>address from my router. Even if I set a static IP, I
>could not ping the router but I could ping myself.
>
>I downloaded and ran WinSockXP Fix. Problem solved!!!!
>http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html

>Hope this helps others!

Dave,

I think, once you have SP2 installed, you don't need any
third-party Winsock repair tools any more, because SP2 adds its
own Winsock repair command:

netsh winsock reset catalog

Please check http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSP2.htm for details.

Hans-Georg

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>-----Original Message-----
wrote on 20-Sep-2004 6:45 PM:
>> After I installed XP SP2 I could no longer get a DHCP
>> address from my router. Even if I set a static IP, I
>> could not ping the router but I could ping myself.
>>
>> I downloaded and ran WinSockXP Fix. Problem solved!!!!
>> http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps others!
>>
>> Dave
>
>This is very interesting. You really should do a malware
scan with
>Ad-aware SE Personal and/or Spybot Search & Destroy and
see if you have
>malware on your system. Please do so and report back --
we need to know
>whether pre-existing spyware is hosing the LSP stack or
whether there is
>some problem in SP2 itself. Thanks.
>
>--
>Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security
>.
>

Had already been running ad-aware 6.0 personal regularly.
Downloaded and ran Spybot. Other than the standard
cookies, it found DSO Exploit and Hacker.ag.

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

Hans-Georg Michna wrote on 20-Sep-2004 11:47 PM:
>
> I think, once you have SP2 installed, you don't need any
> third-party Winsock repair tools any more, because SP2 adds its
> own Winsock repair command:
>
> netsh winsock reset catalog
>
> Please check http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSP2.htm for details.
>
> Hans-Georg
>
It's good to mention that new command here because it is quite useful. I
had read about that feature, but hadn't yet remembered to find out how
to do it. Thanks. However, the other stack tools still have their place
because they can remove malicious components and fix the stack at the
same time.

But for those who regularly use Ad-aware and Spybot, that command is
simpler than using LSPfix to fix the damage that happens after those
tools remove LSP components and break the stack.

And there is the command "netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt" that can
re-install the whole shebang.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security

[Hans-Georg Michna]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:55:40 -0700, "Kent W. England [MVP]"
> wrote:

>And there is the command "netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt" that can
>re-install the whole shebang.

Kent,

do you think that that command also solves the problems that
"netsh winsock reset catalog" solves?

Hans-Georg

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[Kent W. England [MVP]]

Hans-Georg Michna wrote on 21-Sep-2004 11:45 PM:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:55:40 -0700, "Kent W. England [MVP]"
> > wrote:
>
>
>>And there is the command "netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt" that can
>>re-install the whole shebang.
>
>
> Kent,
>
> do you think that that command also solves the problems that
> "netsh winsock reset catalog" solves?
>
> Hans-Georg
>
I would expect so, but I don't know. My recommended procedure,
especially if malware removal has been going on, is to try the LSP stack
fix, followed by reinstalling the whole IP stack.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security

[Hans-Georg Michna]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 06:46:27 -0700, "Kent W. England [MVP]"
> wrote:

>I would expect so, but I don't know. My recommended procedure,
>especially if malware removal has been going on, is to try the LSP stack
>fix, followed by reinstalling the whole IP stack.

Kent,

good idea, thanks. I think I will follow you and also recommend
this.

Hans-Georg

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