More Corruption, Hot Laptops

摘要

Readers responded enthusiastically to my September 21 column, "Corruption at the Jersey Shore," which detailed the Win-sock corruption caused by adware and spyware. The symptoms were being unable to connect to some sites, dropping connections randomly, and reporting that a cable was unplugged when the connection being used was wireless and no wired connection was present. I referred to two Microsoft Knowledge Base articles, 811259 and 299357 (this is the right number; the one in the original column was incorrect), and to a freeware utility program that backs up the registry and resets the Winsock.