lespaul
07-21-2007, 05:25 AM
Hi Guys,
Thought I'd share this little nugget with you, as it helped me repair a customer’s machine recently. It repairs the 'Layered Service Provider' within the Windows Sockets software, which can become compromised by certain types of Malware and also dodgy 'Internet Filtering' software, as I found out.
The software is called 'LSP-Fix' - I can't link to it yet because of Forum Rules, but do a Google search and you'll find it easily enough. Knuckles can you provide a link for the peeps?
Here's my experience...
After my customer installed some dodgy 'Internet Filtering' type software, his machine started to act very strangely - randomly rebooting upon Windows start-up, Safe Mode disabled(!) and other such horrors! :eek:
Long story short, I had to boot Windows from a custom XP Bootable CD and run the LSP-Fix software from there. It fixed it perfectly first time! Nothing I used beforehand would resolve this issue - Multiple application AV scans, HiJackThis!, Spybot, AdAware, you name it I tried it - all to no avail.
Worth a try if all else fails or a great place to start! :)
Thought I'd share this little nugget with you, as it helped me repair a customer’s machine recently. It repairs the 'Layered Service Provider' within the Windows Sockets software, which can become compromised by certain types of Malware and also dodgy 'Internet Filtering' software, as I found out.
The software is called 'LSP-Fix' - I can't link to it yet because of Forum Rules, but do a Google search and you'll find it easily enough. Knuckles can you provide a link for the peeps?
Here's my experience...
After my customer installed some dodgy 'Internet Filtering' type software, his machine started to act very strangely - randomly rebooting upon Windows start-up, Safe Mode disabled(!) and other such horrors! :eek:
Long story short, I had to boot Windows from a custom XP Bootable CD and run the LSP-Fix software from there. It fixed it perfectly first time! Nothing I used beforehand would resolve this issue - Multiple application AV scans, HiJackThis!, Spybot, AdAware, you name it I tried it - all to no avail.
Worth a try if all else fails or a great place to start! :)