[evilfantasy]

Here is another tool designed to do the same thing.

http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html

[evilfantasy]

Another tool.

XP TCP/IP Repair
http://www.xp-smoker.com/freeware.html

[mastaof420]

ok i used all 3 programs and none of them worked
they had no effect at all
the first program i clicked finish and it said there was nothing to fix
the second one went through the steps and i restarted - nothing
the third was the same - nothing
but those programs just did pretty much what i did before but they did them the easy way
i uninstalled tcp/ip through the registry
then put a new copy of mswsock.dll from the windows xp cd

[evilfantasy]

And did it work?

[mastaof420]

the programs ran
but still no internet

[evilfantasy]

recently i got a virus from a keygenerator

What was the name/names of the virus(s)

[evilfantasy]

Also have you tried turning off the firewall and other security software?

[mastaof420]

i dont know the names of the viruses
there was one main one that came with the keygenerator
but then it downloaded many others when i restarted my computer
then stuff just stopped working
i dont have any virus protection/firewall running currently
when i plug in the network cable it goes through the motions of connecting
getting the ip address but when i click advanced and look at the ip #
there is nothing there

[evilfantasy]

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/winsock.htm

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networ...t_internet.htm

If you can not get it working I would suggest running some scans in the Virus, spyware and security forum.

[mastaof420]

ive run hijackthis, avg, spybot, and ad-aware
they all came out clean scans