NIS2005 on Windows Me: Lost Internet Connection

This may have something to do with my icons changing as I mentioned in an earlier post.

Anyway, I ran Norton antivirus yesterday and then scanned my computer with housecall. Following that, my NIS got corrupted. I uninstalled NIS and then reinstalled it, being careful to delete all the temp files as I did so.

My internet connection didn't work. So, I uninstalled NIS again and still my internet does not work.

I also deleted auditmode from the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion as suggested on the Symantec website.

Anybody have a clue as to what could be shutting down my internet connection? It is almost as if a firewall is still in place.

 

Hell thescribe,

Sounds like the Winsock file got corrupted.

Fix for 9X OS's http://www.bu.edu/pcsc/internetaccess/winsock2fix.html

What I suggest you do is make sure that you have a firewall in place before going on the Net.

Regards - Charles

 

Although this thread was moved because of the Norton thing, perhaps it should be retitled and moved back to Me because the solution is found in Me--

but anyway, it turns out the the guys at Symantec tell my my TCP/IP protocols got disrupted--so I went into networks and reinstalled them. It worked. I'm not sure why NIS corrupted them or how, but the response from Symantec came very fast so it can't be a completely unheard of problem.