Winsock problem

[pcmatty]

Hi all i need help. Using my belkin wirles adptor to connect to my parents web feed next door. Iv got good signal. But cnt connect to the internet. Iv done a windows diagnostics for xp and it said "windows has detected a problem with the winsock provider catalog on this pc. This catalogue allows programs to communicate with this pc across the network. Would u like windows to reset the catalog to the default configuration.? The pc mite need to be restarted to restore the network connectivity". I hit yes and it didnt help. I had an alert on mc afee pop up couldnt rember wat it said but i hit allow. Was todo with winsock. Think i should of hit block?. Hope someone can help me with this issue. Iv not had any pc connection to internet for 2 or 3 days now. Im writing all this from my mobile. Many thanx matt.

[NooNoo]

pcmatty, you need to reset winsock and tcp/ip and you need to do this with mcafee turned off, then turn it back on when you are done.

Hit start, run, type in
cmd
click ok

Type in the following commands exactly as shown one at a time and press enter between each

netsh winsock reset catalog

netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt

netsh winsock reset

If that doesn't work, you have a net nasty and you will need hijackthis and spybot search and destroy (with the update files) downloaded on another machine and then you can copy them to a usb stick and then install them on your machine.

in the black box that opens type

[Ferrit]

You could also try using this program to repair it
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html
Also you could turn off the mcaffee firewall for now to see if thats interferring

[pcmatty]

Thanx for info but i got mc afee internet sercurity suite installed . Cant see how to disable it? Matty.

[NooNoo]

If you can't disable it, uninstall it for the time being and reinstall it when you have the network working.

[Ferrit]

Exactly what NooNoo said

[pcmatty]

Hey all . Prob solved. Found out that it was my adptor i rember the conection wasnt working and thot was my end so i m0ved it in different usb ports thus causing new mac addres on my parents pc. Thanx for all help. Matt.