[martino]

smitfraud.c virus has clobbered this dll (maybe others as well) and I cannot start explorer, thus, I cannot get a connection to the internet; I have read many threads that could in fact solve my problem, specifically "hijack this script", but unless I get a browser up I cannot get it; I've booted into safe mode and looked in the system32 directory for "wininet.dll" and it is missing;

I'm currently working on my backup machine and have located this dll in two locations; should I simply "ftp" a copy from this box to my main server? I'm trying to avoid reloading the OS.

Any thoughts?

Sioncerely,

Martino

 

[PurpleSky]

I can't tell how serious the corruption is but yes you can copy the dll from another source and place it under system32. Can't you get hjt from somewhere and copy it on a floppy or usb flash driver ?