Windows XP Home "loses" ICS

T

Tom Perrett

The backgroung, we have a home network on which machines with the
following OSs run "-

XP Professional
XP Home
ME
98 (bog standard)
MAC OS X Jaguar

our XP Home has your 56K modem on and
is configured as the ICS machine.

Everything went swimmingly for years, until now
the Internet Connection on the ICS (Home) machine
is not visible to the other ones on the LAN.

All that needs to be done to let them "see" the
Internet is to run the Network Setup Wizard to the
end. as soon as the FINISH buttom is clicked, voila
away they go, for instance this mail program might
have been sitting here trying to send the USER NAME
and just sitting at that stage, but as soon as FINISH is
clicked on Home, this mailer connects and mail starts
flowing done.

Same on all the other beasts and proggies.

To our eyes there is NO difference to the Net settings
before we run the Wizard to the way they are when
the Wizard has finished.

Further background, the Home machine was not showing
the Windows Task Manager on a CAD, the hour glass would
briefly show and then go "out". A tour of GOOGLE groups
showed this could be due to a Trojan, so I d/l the trial version of
Anti Trojan and ran it and it identified some possibles so got
rid of them.

After that the Task Manager window would pop open
at the CAD but them pop close again in a wink. Then
Nortons did a virus scan and identified that the W32Spybot.Worm
was on Home machine.

I went and got the instructions on what to do and followed
them and got rid of the worm (as an aside I now know that
you CAN get a nasty from newsgroups/newsreader).

Two of the major steps in the cure are to turn off System Restore
and a possible fiddle with the Registry amongst other actions and
then turn back on System Restore. I did all that but did NOT
have to do anything to the Registry.

Now it seems to me that that the "losing" of ICS started
after that.

If anyone can suggest why/cure re ICS going "invisble" to the
rest of the LAN we will be most appreciative

Tom (& frustrated Susan)
 
T

Tom Perrett

The backgroung, we have a home network on which machines with the
following OSs run "-

XP Professional
XP Home
ME
98 (bog standard)
MAC OS X Jaguar

our XP Home has your 56K modem on and
is configured as the ICS machine.

Everything went swimmingly for years, until now
the Internet Connection on the ICS (Home) machine
is not visible to the other ones on the LAN.

All that needs to be done to let them "see" the
Internet is to run the Network Setup Wizard to the
end. as soon as the FINISH buttom is clicked, voila
away they go, for instance this mail program might
have been sitting here trying to send the USER NAME
and just sitting at that stage, but as soon as FINISH is
clicked on Home, this mailer connects and mail starts
flowing done.

Same on all the other beasts and proggies.

To our eyes there is NO difference to the Net settings
before we run the Wizard to the way they are when
the Wizard has finished.

Further background, the Home machine was not showing
the Windows Task Manager on a CAD, the hour glass would
briefly show and then go "out". A tour of GOOGLE groups
showed this could be due to a Trojan, so I d/l the trial version of
Anti Trojan and ran it and it identified some possibles so got
rid of them.

After that the Task Manager window would pop open
at the CAD but them pop close again in a wink. Then
Nortons did a virus scan and identified that the W32Spybot.Worm
was on Home machine.

I went and got the instructions on what to do and followed
them and got rid of the worm (as an aside I now know that
you CAN get a nasty from newsgroups/newsreader).

Two of the major steps in the cure are to turn off System Restore
and a possible fiddle with the Registry amongst other actions and
then turn back on System Restore. I did all that but did NOT
have to do anything to the Registry.

Now it seems to me that that the "losing" of ICS started
after that.

If anyone can suggest why/cure re ICS going "invisble" to the
rest of the LAN we will be most appreciative

Tom (& frustrated Susan)
 

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