NOD32 = No Internet?

I have Windows XP Pro with SP1a and Norton AntiVirus 2003 running, well, at least it was. I decided to try NOD32 so I downloaded, installed, rebooted, and configured and everything worked well then one day, after a reboot, I had a message that NOD32 changed my network settings and needed the computer to be rebooted. I reboot and my Internet and network no longer worked. After trying several ideas to no avail, I reinstalled Windows XP completely. I couldn't even go to ADD/REMOVE and uninstall it since it would pop up an error message about SVCHOST.EXE.

So after I had Windows XP Pro reinstalled, SP1a installed, and my hardware drivers installed I decided to go ahead and redownload NOD32. And guess what? It did the same thing again except this time I was able to uninstall it and my Internet and network would work again. PHEW!

Anyway, what would have caused the problem? I had Norton 2003 installed the first time, but it still worked with both running. This time, I had NOD32 installed first without Norton 2003 ever being installed. I am on Wireless Internet using an external antenna which goes to my D-Link Wireless G network card in my computer. I also have a regular 10/100 NIC which goes to a D-Link router so I can share my Internet connection with 3 other computers here at my home. My computer, not the router, does DHCP for my network which uses TCP/IP. I am running the default Windows XP Firewall.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
BTJustice

 

I can install NOD32 and my Internet and network will not work. No DHCP
assigning IPs to network, etc. I uninstall it and my Internet and network
both work. Weird. It adds 2 processes to the task manager when installed giving me 31 processes running. After uninstalling it, I am down to 29. I take that to mean there is nothing extra running when NOD32 is installed except for the 2 processes it has.

BTJustice

 

As a first test, disable IMON and see if that doesn't help you out.

 

No luck there.

BTJustice

 

Did you go into the IMON set up panel, click on advanced and manually repair the network settings? That would be my first atttempt to see if that made a difference.

 

What version of NOD did you wind up with ? You may have gotten ahold of the the 2.000.8 If that is what you have that is your problem.

 

Yes, no luck there. I just received an e-mail from one of the NOD techs that says to give this utility a try...

http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm

BTJustice

 

http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm

I ran the above program. It removed "imon.dll" and now NOD32 Trial
2.000.6 works, but IMON appears to be non-existant unless I start the service in which case I am back to the same problem all over again. Does the IMON part of NOD32 Trial 2.000.6 not play well with Windows XP Pro SP1a? If that is the case, is there a newer trial version available?

BTJustice

 

Do you tryed to move the slide to less protection more compatiblitie?

 

Yup... ditto.

BTJustice

 

As far as I know the trial version is the same as the registered version except for the time limitation. I'm using that same registered version on XP SP1 without any problems. So I can't thinkwhat's going on since you've tried both repair and the winsock fix.

 

All I know is what http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm said.

BTJustice

 

Please make a list of the aplicattions that are related to the Internet, for example: Browser, firewall, mail clients, mail servers, web servers, proxi, etc.
Do you run a full system scan using Spybot search & destroy, ad-ware or something like that?, some spyware modify the winsock, and others internet realted things.

 

Mozilla Firebird 0.7 Browser
Outlook Express 6
XP Firewall
Etc.

 

Hi,
I never used the XP FW, however this FW is incompatible with some Internet aplicattions.
Disable it and install other free FW like sygate www.sygate.com, or zonealarm www.zonelabs.com and look if the problem disappear.
I don't know if xp fw is incompatible with imon, however some bugs are presented in certain configurations.
Interesting.

 

BTJustice,

Can you have a look what other components showed up in LSPFix?
Including the ones on the "Keep" side.

Regards,

Pieter

 

Yup, they are...

mswsock.dll
winrnr.dll
Proxy.dll
rsvpsp.dll

The one removed was imon.dll

BTJustice

 

And the proxy.dll is from which program?

Regards,

Pieter

 

I have no idea.

BTJustice

 

Can you do a Find/Files and check it's properties?

Regards,

Pieter

 

It is for my SPAMfighter program for Outlook Express.

http://www.spamfighter.com/

BTJustice

 

That could be conflicting with NOD's imon.dll
Let's wait first, and see if someone shows up who is using both without problems.

You wouldn't happen to have AdAware Plus or Pro, do you?

Regards,

Pieter

 

Ad-aware 6.0 Personal Build 6.181

BTJustice

 

Do you have the LSP explorer Plugin: http://lavasoft.element5.com/software/plugins/lspexplorer.shtml

Regards,

Pieter

 

I do now. What should I do with it?

BTJustice