Suddenly can't talk to the LAN

[Guest]

Recently I was infected by the "Where you Search" (or some such) tool bar. It was an application that showed up in Task Manager, I could kill it, but it would come back. About that same time I suddenly could not connect on my home LAN, my desktop wouldn't talk to the DHCP server on my router (doesn't get an IP address - 192.168.0.x, only 169.254.133.37, no nothing). To get the bar off, I finally edited the registery to delect any reference to it and it was gone, but I still couldn't talk to the network. Any association? Any suggestions? I mistakenly posted this to the Win2K Networking - the suggestion to go to a "hosts" file and renaming it didn't work - but thanks.

Suggestions

 

[Al]

You could try deleting your connection, rebooting and
reinstalling it. You need to make sure you have your
network adapter (NIC) drivers in case XP needs them to
reinstall the card. It may reinstall automatically when
you restart your computer.

-----Original Message-----
Recently I was infected by the "Where you Search" (or

some such) tool bar. It was an application that showed up
in Task Manager, I could kill it, but it would come back.
About that same time I suddenly could not connect on my
home LAN, my desktop wouldn't talk to the DHCP server on
my router (doesn't get an IP address - 192.168.0.x, only
169.254.133.37, no nothing). To get the bar off, I
finally edited the registery to delect any reference to it
and it was gone, but I still couldn't talk to the
network. Any association? Any suggestions? I mistakenly
posted this to the Win2K Networking - the suggestion to go
to a "hosts" file and renaming it didn't work - but thanks.

 

[Paul Woodsford]

System Restore to a point before the problem occurred?

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Paul Woodsford
Remove ****NOSPAMPLEASE**** to Reply
: You could try deleting your connection, rebooting and
: reinstalling it. You need to make sure you have your
: network adapter (NIC) drivers in case XP needs them to
: reinstall the card. It may reinstall automatically when
: you restart your computer.
:
: >-----Original Message-----
: >Recently I was infected by the "Where you Search" (or
: some such) tool bar. It was an application that showed up
: in Task Manager, I could kill it, but it would come back.
: About that same time I suddenly could not connect on my
: home LAN, my desktop wouldn't talk to the DHCP server on
: my router (doesn't get an IP address - 192.168.0.x, only
: 169.254.133.37, no nothing). To get the bar off, I
: finally edited the registery to delect any reference to it
: and it was gone, but I still couldn't talk to the
: network. Any association? Any suggestions? I mistakenly
: posted this to the Win2K Networking - the suggestion to go
: to a "hosts" file and renaming it didn't work - but thanks.
: >
: >Suggestions
: >
: >.
: >

 

[Guest]

Hugh, I feel your pain! Found both your posts and thought I'd copy this from W2K area here.

I'm struggling with the same problem right now. It seemed to result from attempts to remove the searchexe.com adware.
I too have tried all the above fixes with no result. I was successful in restoring to a previous point, prior to attempts to remove it with an "adware remover" app. and have the network connection restored.
-removal and reinstall of the nic, protocal, etc. never worked.
Unfortunately, I then tried again to remove the adware, and turned of system restore (as done with virus removal). In this attempt, xp home deleted all of the restore points. Now I'm stuck!
Have lost LAN connectivilty. Won't find the dhcp server. I'm thinking something with dhcp or the tcp/ip stack.
Any ideas what to try now?

 

[Guest]

This worked for me, but then returns the adware.
I'm still looking for how to correct the problems created - since I've nuked my restore points! Arrrghhh!

 

[jeff_harkness]

I'm having similar problems. I can't find a way to delete
my Local Area Connection. If I right click, the delete
option is grey. Highlighting the connection and hitting
the delete doesn't work either.

 

[Guest]

Sounds like you may be at a different point in this problem.
I found a solution that worked. It repairs the LSP portion of the winsock registry. Seems to the the exact problem I'd had.
Look in this newsgroup but search for "spyware/adware" the thread from 4/8/04 has LOTS of info!

Good Luck

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I'm having similar problems. I can't find a way to delete
my Local Area Connection. If I right click, the delete
option is grey. Highlighting the connection and hitting
the delete doesn't work either.

It isn't possible to delete a LAN connection directly. The LAN
connection is associated with a physical network adapter. Go to
Device Manger and delete the network adapter. That will also delete
the LAN connection. When Windows XP detects and re-installs the
network adapter, it will create a new network connection.
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