re: programs cant access the internet Saturday, September 24, 2005 at 7:55 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by DEX (11847 messages posted) punkstar63 Well You have disposed of all the life boats and safe gurards now your taking the time to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic so to speak. WHY did you remove ZoneAlarm ? You now have one or more worms/virus on board and you will need to download a program to remove them. Download AVG it will take most of them off your machine and keep them off. Also download WinSock XP Fix http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html http://www.spychecker.com/download/download_winsockxpfix.html ------------------------------------------ How To Diagnose and Test TCP How To Diagnose and Test TCP/IP or NetBIOS Network Connections in Windows 2000 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;300986&sd=tech http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/testtcpip.htm --------------------------------------------- server below http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323388 ----------------------------------------- You should not go on the Net without a Firewall goto the OutPost web site and view the demo why you should have a firewall running . Dowload the programs you need and put them on a cd and then run them on your machine. On Saturday, September 24, 2005 at 6:18 am, punkstar630 wrote: >no firewall running (got rid of zonealarm over a year ago) basically everything >i download that needs an internet connection, cant connect, (mozilla, google >earth, limewire, ect...) are there some settings somewhere that i have missed or >screwed up? anyone else had this problem and can give me any advice? oh yea also >everytime i click internet explorer my homepage has been reset to C:\WINNT\system32\msblank.html > i reset the homepage almost every time i am in ie but it still changes >thanks >mark Written in response to: programs cant access the internet (punkstar630: Saturday, September 24, 2005 at 6:18 am) Responses to this message: re: programs cant access the internet (punkstar630: Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 8:12 am) All messages in this thread [show all] programs cant access the internet (punkstar630: Sat, Sep 24, 2005, 6:18 am) re: programs cant access the internet (Eric: Sat, Sep 24, 2005, 6:57 am) re: programs cant access the internet (DEX: Sat, Sep 24, 2005, 7:55 am) re: programs cant access the internet (punkstar630: Sun, Sep 25, 2005, 8:12 am) re: programs cant access the internet (DEX: Sun, Sep 25, 2005, 9:01 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum