It’ll happen to ya eventually. At some point in the future, you’ll find that after you have removed some spyware on a client’s PC, the Internet connectivity has been cooked.

Like most folks, you’ll likely spend more than a fair amount of time trying to figure out why nothing seems to repair the connectivity, even trying to reinstall the network components themselves. Having been here myself, it can be a frustrating experience to contend with, let me tell ya!

Luckily for us we have the option of using special Winsock repair tools to fix the unfixable. Some of them are better than others, but my personal favorite when working with XP happens to be WinSock XP Fix. Never have I had an issue where this bad boy couldn’t come along and save my bacon. Try it next time nothing else works with lost Internet connectivity. It also does wonders for software firewall installs gone horribly wrong, too.

[tags]spyware,firewall,winsock repair,snapfiles[/tags]