WinSock 10054

[Novice]

Over Christmas I kept getting redirected when googling and eventually landed
on a site that told me I had hundreds of viruses and trojens. My virus
program hopefully found them all but now I cannot get any updates for my anti
virus program. If I click on anything to do with updates or virus programs
of any sort I get a message from Safari (which I am now using instead of
firefox or Explorer) that I have a Winsock 10054 error. Also the system
reinstate hasn't been working. An automatic microsoft update has come in
once or twice and I now have some system reinstate points but I haven't tried
them out. I am frightened to try and mend the winsock with method I have
seen in case the automatic bit where the registry keys are automatically
reinstated is not working with me then they wouldn't only be broken but
missing altogether.
You can see that I am an absolute novice.

 

[Rey Santos]

Can you boot to Safe Mode or Last Known good configuration. If you can then
configure the PC not to to automatically restart under System failure.

 

[Novice]

Can you boot to Safe Mode or Last Known good configuration. If you can then
configure the PC not to to automatically restart under System failure.

 

[Rey Santos]

From Globalscape Knowledge Base
http://kb.globalscape.com/article.aspx?id=10140

Connection reset by peer.
An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. This normally
results if the peer application on the remote host is suddenly stopped, the
host is rebooted, the host or remote network interface is disabled, or the
remote host uses a hard close (see setsockopt for more information on the
SO_LINGER option on the remote socket). This error may also result if a
connection was broken due to keep-alive activity detecting a failure while
one or more operations are in progress. Operations that were in progress fail
with WSAENETRESET. Subsequent operations fail with WSAECONNRESET

Q10235 - ERRDOC: Socket Error 10054
http://kb.globalscape.com/article.aspx?id=10235