XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc, alt.windows95   
   From: wes.parish@paradise.net.nz   
      
   Witchsmeller Jason wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Are you sure it's the software?  I was working on a Win98 box a while back   
   that gave me and some friends endless frustration.  And it showed the same   
   sort of symptom your friend's got with that - *.dll missing, etc, ad   
   nauseam.   
      
   Turned out it was some hardware slowly dying on us.  That could be the   
   problem with your friend - try it out.   
      
   Wesley Parish   
   --   
   "Good, late in to more rewarding well."  "Well, you tonight.  And I was   
   lookintelligent woman of Ming home.  I trust you with a tender silence."  I   
   get a word into my hands, a different and unbelike, probably - 'she   
   fortunate fat woman', wrong word.  I think to me, I justupid.   
   Let not emacs meta-X dissociate-press write your romantic dialogs...!!!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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