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Having problems with servinfo


Allan Fulton 859856
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Allan Fulton 859856
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Hi can someone help me Ive been having a problem recently with my PC its a Medion Pentium 4, I could connect to servinfo no problem before but now cant receive any data from any server, my pc has a built in network card, if I add a seperate card I can connect no prob but not with the built in card although I can get on the vatsim network to fly and I can surf the net, I had the engineer come out yesterday and replace the mother board but still cant get on and its driving me BONKERS, any help would be gratefull

 

Cheers

 

Allan

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Lennart Vedin
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Strange. ServInfo should be easy just internet-connection, no worry about firewall or anything.

 

Suggest:

- Remove your seperate network card.

- Download again ServInfo in a new folder. http://www.avsim.com/hangar/utils/servinfo

- Run the new ServInfo and try all connections Vatsim, IVAO and EUROBOOK.

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Chris Bolton 921285
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I'm also having problems with servinfo. Works fine on my computer at work but my computer at home can't connect to the servers.

I put it down to the fact that my work computer doesn't have service pack 2 installed, but then I would of thought many more people would also be having this problem.

I know service pack 2 disables the use of raw packets so if Servinfo use this then it would no longer function.

 

Cheers

 

edit: well its not sp2 thats the problem anyway.. just tested it oin another computer

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Chris Bolton 921285
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Fixed:

 

From the author...

 

This could be problem that has been reported to me by some other

users and is caused by a virus infection (a trojan type). Check this:

 

Search for a system file named "protocol" (NOT protocol.ini, just protocol

with NO EXTENSION - if you have set windows explorer to hide known

extensions you might confuse these two files). It is located at the

"C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc" directory for WinXP.

If you find that this file is missing from this directory then you are

probably not infected but that's causing the problem to ServInfo - I will

send you this file.

If the file is there then check that the above location has not been

altered

in the windows registry (that's one of the things this virous would do).

To do this open the registry editor:

Start -> Run -> REGEDIT

navigate (or seach) to this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters

(could also instead of "CurrentControlSet" be two keys with ControlSet001

and ControlSet002, or something similar) and see if the value is :

"DataBasePath"="%SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc"

If it is instead anything else (e.g "DataBasePath"="%SystemRoot%\help")

then

you have been infected from this virus. Restoring this entry to the correct

value will make ServInfo work again. However, you should use your antivirus

software to check for the infection.

A long time ago I have found these links for a virus that does this thing:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html

http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100719

but there might be other viruses that could do the same.

 

Best regards,

Michael

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Heinrich Lombard 921520
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ATT: Chris Bolton 921285

 

 

Could you please send the protocol file to [email protected] as i have the same problem with serverinfo

 

regards Heinrich

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Chris Bolton 921285
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Not a problem, sent, hope it helps.

 

Regards,

chris

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