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2007-09-18
Norton Antivirus blows. Last night I got a little pop-up message asking if I wanted to run live update. "Of course," let's stay-up-date and protected from all the badness out there. So I run update and it downloads one item called an "event driver" (or something like that). I install the update and immediately lose my internet connection. Every attempt to repair it gave me the useful message "Failed to query TCP/IP settings of the connection. Cannot proceed." Fortunately I also have Linux installed on my PC. So I booted into it, hopped on the internet, and searched on that phrase. The fix, thanks to this forum thread (dated December 8th, 2004, 04:47 AM), was to go to network connections, view the properties of my Network card, and uninstall Client for MS networks, file & printer sharing, and uncheck TCP/IP. After that, I rebooted, reinstalled the services I uninstalled, and I was back in service. An easy fix, but a huge waste of time.
9:53 PM
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