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Re: OT - Help! (Windows corrupted?)
From: "Mary Landesman" <mlande () bellsouth net>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 21:53:57 -0700
Are you using Internet Connection Sharing? That file (hosts.ics) and that IP are both typical of ICS.
More info on this topic can be found at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309642I realize this doesn't answer your question or resolve your original problem. However, I'm hoping it will at least help you pinpoint the reason for the hosts.ics file and the IP being used therein.
As for the original problem: a few months ago, I also encountered difficulty accessing the Custom list on the Windows Update site. Googling the problem, I found it was fairly common. I don't recall now what I did to fix it (sorry), but I do recall that it wasn't in the suggestions I found online. I'll ponder away at it and hopefully remember before too long.
As for being unable to switch users, did you by any chance disable the service for fast user switching? That's fairly commonly recommended in many of the service tweaks found on various sites, so it wouldn't be unusual if you had.
Regards, -- Mary----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>
To: <funsec () linuxbox org> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 9:49 PM Subject: [funsec] OT - Help! (Windows corrupted?)
I'm starting to get serious worried.Initial symptom: for about a month, I've been unable to get at Windows Update. Can open the page, but when I try to get a "Custom" list (which is what I usually do, in order to see what MS wants to foist off on me), the little green "working"bar just keeps on flashing back and forth (for hours, if necessary).Have installed something that was supposed to fix an Update "filter" problem: nojoy.(Have also checked "Windows Genuine Advantage" which reports that I am legit, so that wouldn't appear to be an issue. I know that WGA has thrown fits in somecases.)Tonight I have been unable to use the "Switch User" function. (I don't use it often, so I have no idea how long that has been on the fritz.) There is a brief pause, a brief flurry of activity on the drive, and then nothing else happens. I cancontinue operating as I am, but don't switch to the login screen. In planning to run Spybot, I idly wondered if anything had gotten past thedefences and messed with the hosts file. I found the hosts file unchanged, but also found a hosts.ics file. This is a new one on me. There appears to be only oneentry in it: #192.168.1.100 swen.mshome.net # 2011 5 0 8 23 2 34 517 The file was last changed September 5, 2006.Swen is the name of the machine. I have a Linksys/Cisco firewall router, but thedefault address for that is 192.169.1.1. (All of these things may, of course, be unconnected with one another.) Any suggestions or info?I'm beginning to wonder if I need to restore or reinstall somehow, and I've neverhad to do that before ... ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. - Laurence Sterne Dictionary of Information Security www.syngress.com/catalog/?pid=4150 http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsecNote: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: OT - Help! (Windows corrupted?) Mary Landesman (Oct 08)
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- Re: OT - Help! (Windows corrupted?) Brian Loe (Oct 10)