Re: Computer help

I'm glad that got taken care of. Sounded like a nightmare. Now, ban your
daughter from your computer! LOL

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Kathy
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"Anne Vasquez" <annevasquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I love replying to myself.... <G>
>
> It's fixed, and I owe a huge vote of thanks to MQ tech support - took an
> hour and a half of of phone support and fiddling that I NEVER would have
> figured out on my own! Thanks a million, Carl!!
>
> Anne
>
>
> annevasquez@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> I've really made a mess this time - I can't even get my computer online
>> now!! (Disclaimer up front: please forgive typos and/or posting
>> errors; I'm using a friend's computer w/o an ergo KB and going through
>> Google Groups to get here. I may wear out the backspace key on his KB
>> before this post is done!!)
>>
>> Anyway, last night my DD was doing some research for school and
>> downloaded a "program" for Powerpoint backgrounds, which, of course,
>> turned out to be a virus. AVG caught it, although I can't say for sure
>> whether she ran the .exe file. I believe the virus was called
>> something about NewDot. I ran AVG, Spybot, and AdAware, and deleted
>> the folder and shortcuts this thing had put on my computer.
>> When I rebooted, I got a message that the system couldn't find
>> something to do with NewDot.dll. (This is where I probably majorly
>> screwed things up.) I figured this stinky thing had added stuff to my
>> registry, and I went into Regedit and took out all entries referring to
>> NewDot (there were 3 or 4).
>>
>> When I rebooted again, it said something about being unable to find
>> Winsock. When I try to load a browser (I have DSL internet service),
>> it says, "Windows socket initialization failed." When I try to load
>> DocQScribe, it says, "HTTPCLIENT.DLL cannot start. Check file to
>> determine the problem."
>>
>> I have no idea where to start, only that I must have done somethng muy
>> stupid to the system. Does anybody have any idea where I can start
>> looking for a solution? I'm running Win98SE, BTW.
>>
>> Thanks so much for any suggestions!
>>
>> Anne
>>


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