Malke said:
Thanks for posting the answer. Other people have had difficulties with the
latest version of SpySweeper and not just on Vista.
One point I'd like to make about virtual machines, however - the virtual
machine is *not* using your Vista-configured NIC. All virtual machines use
emulated hardware that has nothing to do with the actual hardware in your
machine. So it would be possible for a vm to have a problem with drivers
for the emulated NIC. I think it is probable that you knew that and I have
misunderstood your post but I wanted to make that clear just in case.
Again, I'm glad you got that sorted. Thanks for taking the time to post
your solution.
Malke
I'm confused.
I thought the way Windows Virtual Machine worked was it set up an
environment for software that looked like hardware, i.e. it had registers in
the "right" places that hooked into the underlying OS, so that when another
OS was run within it, it appeared to that OS as if it was controlling the
hardware when, in fact, all it was doing was passing commands to the
underlying OS that, in turn, actually controlled the hardware. For
instance, if Vista was misconfigured and the network interface wasn't
working under Vista, it also wouldn't work in a Virtual Machine run under
Vista, even if the VM OS was correctly configured.
Is that wrong?