blablah Posted January 8, 2006 CID Share Posted January 8, 2006 Hi, I cant seem to ping a site because whenever I open my MS-DOS Prompt and type tracert www.google.com or ping www.google.com, it'll come up with very strange letters like a triangle, some smiley faces, a heart, a clover, a spade, a music notes, and some other letters. I don't even know what this means. I access my command prompt by going to start>run>command. Also, whenever I type cmd in start>run it pops up and disappears... I'm very confused right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blunted 2 Posted January 8, 2006 CID Share Posted January 8, 2006 yes i would say something is wrong but i have no idea. does it do this to any trace routes or ping to other sites. here is mine so you know the site works Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] © Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:Documents and SettingsEebobb>tracert google.com Tracing route to google.com [72.14.207.99] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 10 ms 10 ms 9 ms er1.nyc1.speakeasy.net [216.254.112.1] 2 9 ms 7 ms 8 ms 220.ge-0-1-0.cr2.nyc1.speakeasy.net [69.17.83.20 1] 3 10 ms 9 ms 8 ms core1-0-2-0.lga.net.google.com [198.32.160.130] 4 27 ms 26 ms 31 ms 72.14.236.219 5 31 ms 26 ms 26 ms 66.249.94.74 6 27 ms 30 ms 26 ms 66.249.94.96 7 32 ms 26 ms 27 ms 72.14.207.99 Trace complete. C:Documents and SettingsEebobb>ping google.com Pinging google.com [72.14.207.99] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=249 Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=249 Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=248 Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=248 Ping statistics for 72.14.207.99: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 27ms, Maximum = 27ms, Average = 27ms C:Documents and SettingsEebobb> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blablah Posted January 8, 2006 Author CID Share Posted January 8, 2006 It looks nothing like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallowEarth Posted January 8, 2006 CID Share Posted January 8, 2006 Download this software and run trace and ping from it. http://www.ks-soft.net/ip-tools.eng/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blunted 2 Posted January 8, 2006 CID Share Posted January 8, 2006 i have that program and its good to use for a number of things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blablah Posted January 8, 2006 Author CID Share Posted January 8, 2006 Cool, I guess that worked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallowEarth Posted January 8, 2006 CID Share Posted January 8, 2006 Here is an online scan: [LINK] You'll need to shut down your firewall. Otherwise, you can find some great info on free software for download on our Make It Faster STICKY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cholla Posted January 8, 2006 CID Share Posted January 8, 2006 blablah ;You probably have some corrupt files but try this. Type cd after the command prompt this should give you this for a prompt C:> after you do this type cdwindows if you want windows it should look like this C:>cdwindows that should give you this prompl C:windows> Try your ping or tracert after these prompts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tennesseeme Posted January 8, 2006 CID Share Posted January 8, 2006 reminds me of what my cmd entries looked like after getting "nuked" back when i first started using win98 and playing HalfLife mod's, don't piss off an admin in TFC! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blablah Posted January 9, 2006 Author CID Share Posted January 9, 2006 O yeah, I already removed the virus a llooonnggg while back, I just wanna know how to repair my files. And cholla, I tried what you said and it still looks the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted January 9, 2006 CID Share Posted January 9, 2006 Extract this archive to C:WindowsSystem32 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cholla Posted January 9, 2006 CID Share Posted January 9, 2006 blablah : I tried that was my best suggestion.Unless you ISP is sending garbage back to block tracert & ping.Some don't allow ping or tracert you might call & ask them. My ISP blocks them they say because this prevents DOS attacks.They don't send garbage back though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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