From: John Beckett 

"Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
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> VNC, however, doesn't work, claiming a
> socket-error ('cannot create socket').

It doesn't sound likely from your description, but one worry with VNC is
that if a trojan had installed a VNC-like program on the computer, there is
a possibility that the first would interfere with the second.

Consider running the following at command prompt: netstat -n >n.txt
n.txt

> I get a  DNSerror.

At command prompt on the problem computer, what happens with this: ping cisco.com

The ping may fail (timeout). But does it show the IP of cisco.com? What
happens on other computer when you try this?

John

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