Lost and frustrated

[ljd-1965]

Hi.
Hope someone can help me. I recently had the sasser worm
removed from my computer. So far so good I can again
access the internet etc., but it seems either the virus
left some chaos or when I got the sp2 update it messed up
something.

My problem is this - whenever I try to download (anywhere
except winupdate) I get a message stating: "Internet
explorer was not able to download (name of file) from
(name of site)
Internet Explorer was not able to open this internet
site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot
be found. Please try again later."

It does this everywhere I try. There is no exceptions.
Also I can no longer change any defaults on my system. I
mention this only in case the two are related.

If anyone out there can help me I will be most
grateful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lisa Dunn
(e-mail address removed)

 

[José Gallardo]

After sasser infection, the best choice is a clean install:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

 

[Guest]

Open the following file in notepad:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Look at the very bottom of the file, you should only see one entry:

127.0.0.1 localhost


Remove any other entries. It is possible a virus messed with this file.