vidalia tor messed up dns, taskbar, drivers

[root]

So, I tried to install vidalia tor for my laptop using windows this morning. I didn't think this would be a problem since I got it installed on *nix all the time. Unfortunately, vidalia had to give me all this bullshit about this not working, that not working, saying that tor is connected but it's getting network information or whatever. So then I was like, fuck it, I'll just use a VPN when I get around to getting it.

Unfortunately, after i closed all of tor and firefox related shit, and tried to re-open firefox, it said something about firefox already running and i'm like, wtf? Then it said to reboot and I did.

After I reboot, my taskbar (bar thing on the bottom of the screen) looks like the windows xp one (white colored and the start button looks the same) but has win7 features. I uninstall all of tor and cleared every trace off my system, restarted and the taskbar is still not working. Then my DNS decides to fail. it's not working at all.


A ping to google returns:
"Ping request could not find host google.com. Please check the name and try again'

A ping to the router (192.168.1.1)
'Unable to contact IP driver. General failure.'

I figured the drivers all got uninstalled or fucked up or whatever so I tried repairing the drivers but it still didn't work. I dunno what to do now.

I found something interesting: In task manager, there's a service called Dnscache and it's stopped. Actually a lot og my networkservices have stopped. When trying to start it, it errors and says 'the operation could not be completed. The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it'

I just tried networking on *nix for the same computer. It's dual booted. Turns out, that doesn't work either. While trying to bring up wlan0, i get a
'Could not set interface wlan0 flags: operation not possible due to RF-kill
Failed to initialize driver interface'
* start-stop-daemon: failed to start ' /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant'
*ERROR: net.wlan0 failed to start'

Actually, it might not be, I tried to re-install the linux wlan driver (r8101) and it seemed fine. I'm gonna try a connection via ethernet cable

So yeah, a wired connection is succesful.

Yep, dunno what I was thinking, definitely not a driver problem. I rebuilt the driver and it's still changes nothing

Lol, I figured it out. Half of you guys probably didn't even read the whole thing but whatever. So turns out, *nix can connect wirelessly perfectly fine. That would mean that it was windows' problem and not the TCP/IP problem. I had reset the TCPIP crap and the winsock and whatever and it didn't work anyway.

I think the problem is that I'm infected with a worm/virus that hides behind a fake csrss.exe. It probably started when I tried to download cygwin since the downloads are from different mirrors. I'm guessing that the mirror i was using got hacked and when I tried to download crap from that mirror, i got infected too.

So the idea is that I have to look for a tcpip.sys file and mod it. The problem I'm having is that the fix is for a 2003 windows server and i'm running win7 so things are kinda configured a bit different. So if anyone knows where the tcpip.sys file is and how i can get to it, please enlighten me because I can't seem to get it through regedit.exe.

Sorry, if this sounds really jargon-y.

So the problem isn't csrss.exe since it's not taking any CPU to run. It's still at 00. The point is, everything is still pretty screwy looking. DNS still fails and still can't contact IP driver. The problem is, no one else really has the same error message as me. Probably, if I can't fix this, I'll just back up my files and update it to Windows 8. I've been meaning to do that anyway. I think that I probably deleted or messed up some system file that I shouldn't have been touching. In that case, I can't really save it now.

Otherwise, I'll just run Gentoo from now although I'm getting errors for the GUI when I start it for normal user. serverauth locking/timing out. Dunno why this happens.

[TheMatrix]

Right, so, first of all, you use the edit button when you want to add something.
Second, when you say "*nix", you might as well state your specific distro(I suspect that dreadful Ubuntu), because otherwise it implies you've tried it on everything from Linux to BSD to the GNU Hurd. And that probably isn't true.
Lastly, you're better off doing a system restore or whatever they call it on Windoze. And, of course, don't use any mirrors that aren't listed as official on the software's site.

[root]

Right, so, first of all, you use the edit button when you want to add something.
Second, when you say "*nix", you might as well state your specific distro(I suspect that dreadful Ubuntu), because otherwise it implies you've tried it on everything from Linux to BSD to the GNU Hurd. And that probably isn't true.
Lastly, you're better off doing a system restore or whatever they call it on Windoze. And, of course, don't use any mirrors that aren't listed as official on the software's site.

Gentoo 3.3.8.
Here's the full story if you're interested: http://pastebin.com/WgSBPyJ5
It's quite long. And yeah ubuntu sucks, the bloating is quite unbelievable. dunno why skids use backtrack all the time.

And if it counts, i tried it on solaris(unix) and mint(debian) in vmware on windows but i didn't mention it because it doesn't really make sense to. Error messages are the same.

I believe I mention that I cannot system restore. For some reason, when I boot to the disc, it says that my version and the version on the disc is not the same version.

[TheMatrix]

I believe I mention that I cannot system restore. For some reason, when I boot to the disc, it says that my version and the version on the disc is not the same version.

You said that the fix you found was for a different version. But do you have the original discs? Or that "safe mode" you seem to be a big advocate of?

[JustinBieber]

It was the original disk. safe mode works. does not connect though.

[TheMatrix]

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