adware has ruined my internet connectivity

[Robert]

First- appologies... I am sure you have answered this somewhere, but I have
searched the appropriate newsgroups till my eyes are exhausted and bugged
techy friends till they avoid me. Please help.
I am attempting to repair my teenage son's PC (he trashed another which I
gave away... I believe in the same way). I recently uninstalled a lot of
malware/spyware with Adaware and Spybot-Search and Destroy. Now I cannot
connect to the internet as I could before with IE. I installed Firefox
without connection success as well. I ran through uninstalling DUN and
reinstalling... no success. I reinstalled winsock with winsock fix... no
success. I ran lspfix... no success. When I run ipconfig /all, everything
looks OK (now!, it didn't at first... DHCP enabled, DNS server is correct,
gateway is correct etc etc etc). I can no longer ping my router from his
machine either. He is running IE6 on a 98SE machine, on a 3 PC home
network. All the other PC's connect fine. We use roadrunner cable.
Roadrunner refuses to help with home networks they did not setup and you are
not paying them for (their history with my past problems has been VERY poor
anyway). Sorry if I left out some detail or other.
HELP!

I also tried: regsvr32 urlmon.dll without success.

IE6 still starts up, tries to find the page and after a looonnnggg wait says
page cannot load

What next?

I poted this a week ago w/o a response... figured I would try again.
Many thanks in advance.

 

[oops!!]

Robert,

Try running this Winsock fix:

http://downloads.subratam.org/WinsockFix.zip

Download, unzip, scan and reboot.

Test.

Zee

 

[Robert]

I wrote in my initial request that I had already tried winsockfix w/o
success... but thanks for the thought.
Since then I have formated the HD, reinstalled the OS and all the
appropriate updates. 3-4 hours of crap, but it works great now (till he
screws it up AGAIN!)

 

[oops!!]

Robert,

Thanks for the feedback and the good news, even if after some hard work...


Cheers,

Zee