XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc, alt.windows95   
   From: Power-Poster@power-post.org   
      
   Hi,   
      
   A friend has asked me to look at his flakey Win 95 box, which I strongly   
   suspect is riddle with spyware & possibly viruses (viri). I installed a   
   copy of Lavasoft's Ad-aware on his machine but when I ran it Windows   
   complained about WS2_32.DLL being missing. I downloaded a zipped version of   
   this from the net but when I extracted it (with winzip) I could only find a   
   html doc in the chosen directory, no DLL? Frustrated I gave up & downloaded   
   the file on my XP box, extracted it and eventually copied it to his system   
   folder. After running Ad-aware again his box then complained about missing   
   WS2_HELP.DLL (or something very similar, I can't find the piece of paper I   
   wrote it down on). I think a virus &/or spyware has altered his machine   
   which is causing many problems.   
      
   Does anyone know a way to fix this PC, as I can't seem to extract zipped   
   DLLs on his box I can't keep driving to his house to find out which DLL it   
   needs next only to have to go home, download it on my PC & return - there   
   could be 20+ files missing!   
      
   I don't mind if someone has come accorss this problem before & supplies a   
   list of possible DLLs that are missing, I can download them all and take   
   them round on a disc. Alternatively maybe there is an app that I can   
   download that can scan which files are missing? He does have the original   
   Win 95 disc if that helps, any advice greatly appreciated. I've also tried   
   Spybot & I get the same results.   
      
   Thanks, Jason.   
      
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