Internet Sharing Connection has gone poof

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Computer 1 - Pent III 866 running 512 mg Ram and using MS
Windows XP Professional

Computer 2 - Pent III 866 running 216 mg Ram and using MS
Windows 98

Both computers are networked with Computer 1 being
the "host" (through Internet Connection Sharing)

Completely out of the blue for the last two days,
whenever computer 2 is turned on and connects to the
network - the online performance of Computer 1 all but
fails. I am unable to view most websites (either local
or international), there are some where I can get to the
index page (with half the graphics missing) but cannot go
any deeper, MS outlook cannot download any emails - keeps
saying that it cannot connect with mail host, and most of
my chat programs cannot connect. Its almost like its got
down to a 14.4kbps but internet connect is still stable
at 50.6kbps.

If Computer 2 is not switched on then computer 1 works
perfectly.

I have no idea what has caused this but someone mentioned
that the ICS files may have got corrupted.

Is there any way I can fix this without having to FDisk
and start all over again? Will reinstalling XP help at
all?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Jo W.
 
"Jo" said:
Computer 1 - Pent III 866 running 512 mg Ram and using MS
Windows XP Professional

Computer 2 - Pent III 866 running 216 mg Ram and using MS
Windows 98

Both computers are networked with Computer 1 being
the "host" (through Internet Connection Sharing)

Completely out of the blue for the last two days,
whenever computer 2 is turned on and connects to the
network - the online performance of Computer 1 all but
fails. I am unable to view most websites (either local
or international), there are some where I can get to the
index page (with half the graphics missing) but cannot go
any deeper, MS outlook cannot download any emails - keeps
saying that it cannot connect with mail host, and most of
my chat programs cannot connect. Its almost like its got
down to a 14.4kbps but internet connect is still stable
at 50.6kbps.

If Computer 2 is not switched on then computer 1 works
perfectly.

I have no idea what has caused this but someone mentioned
that the ICS files may have got corrupted.

Is there any way I can fix this without having to FDisk
and start all over again? Will reinstalling XP help at
all?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Jo W.
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I don't think that the problem involves ICS corruption. However, it
couldn't hurt to disable and then re-enable ICS on Computer 1.

I've seen the Blaster worm do exactly what you describe. Disconnect
Computer 2 from the network, download the FixBlast.exe program from
this site to Computer 1, write it to a floppy disk, write-protect the
floppy disk, and run it on Computer 2:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html

If that doesn't solve the problem, run spyware and antivirus scans on
Computer 2 in Safe mode.
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