RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

[azurelunatic]

How the fuck do I purge the DNS resolver cache on a fucking Windows XP piece of shit? Also, how do I disable a fucking network connection that's not working when it says that I don't 0wn it?

I suspect that deleting the Administrator account may have had something to do with this.

For the record: it's not my computer, and I am network admin, not computer 0wner.

Comments

[koshall.livejournal.com]

Yes, deleting the admin account is very likely responsible for the not owning it message... The admin account is your friend in XP, probally the only thing that is really, considering how annoying everything else is there...

I'll need to play a bit to figure out the dns cache thing, but I'll let you know if I do.

[azurelunatic]

Oy. Now it's not doing it again. Or something.

Makes me long for Linux, to explicitly change who 0wnz it.

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

ipconfig /flushdns is the command string you are looking for, though if you nuked the admin account you may have trouble with it.

[azurelunatic]

"Function failed during execution."

Rather than "if you", it should be "since he".

There's also a Trojan on there. He's working on rooting it out right now.

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

I thought it might do that, you need admin priv's to modify the network settings.

Did he actually delete it? or just rename it?
if he renamed it/doesn't have a passwd for it, he might want to use this (http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/) to zero the passwd on all the admin marked accounts.

If he's trojaned, he might be best off saving all his data elsewhere and rebuilding rather than attempting to fix it.

[azurelunatic]

I'm really not sure, and given that it's a) his box, and b) XP, and c) he's a user, not a computer-geek, I think I'll stay as merrily out of this as I can.

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

Thats a very wise idea.

[azurelunatic]

...Though my girlfriend is trying to help now.

[azurelunatic]

...I mean, he's user, not g33k, and he's our local XP expert.

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

And thats probably XP Home isn't it?
On the XP systems I admin my first actions are to change all the fancy GUI crap back to the win2k styles, and once thats done it behaves remarkably like Win2k...

[azurelunatic]

Heh. Not my box. *sigh*

It would be simpler if it were.