I just left work after a spending an hour or so making some windows clients behave.
What I found was rather eye-opening...
Windows clients effected; win95, 98 and one w2k.
Symptom... machines were crawling like typical microsoft slugs... only worse. One
win98 client popped up with "out of resources", the lan was choked with traffic from
these effected machines. Something was trying like hell to get past the firewall... to
the outside.
Cure... during a shutdown on a win98 client, a popup displayed something
to the effect "win95 RPC, Wmsg not responding". After a quick browse on
the inet... I found this... "simply click open add/remove applications and
remove "WEB ENHANCER"". All machines are back to normal, lan is quiet...
Postmortem... I haven't a clue as I am not a windows guru. However, a user has had the
courage to step forward and admitted to downloading the WEB ENHANCER off the inet
thinking it would speed up webpage fetching... It's probably what everyone else did
too...
Whatever this thing is, it doesn't behave right. Keep yer' eyes open.
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