wininet.dll missing error message - please help!

Question

I am having issues here, similar to a user on another thread on this board. Norton found what was identified as a bloodhound virus, although I understand that isn't a specific virus, but symptoms of irregularities that appear to be virus-caused. My norton had expired, and I renewed and was trying to install and in the middle of installing, it needed to reboot. However, when it was rebooting, I got the wininet.dll missing message. I have been trying to work through the steps suggested on the other thread, to repair it, but have been unable to make any progress. Here is what I have attempted so far: 1) Rebooted into safe mode and tried last known good configuration. No help. 2) Rebooted into safe mode, clicked administrator so I could try the start-programs-accessories-systemtools-systemrestore, but I got the wininet.dll missing message and could go no further. 3) Rebooted into safe mode, and got to the command prompt to search for a copy of wininet.dll and it found several. I tried to copy them to c:\windows\system32, and I kept  getting the message that the stystem cannot find the path specified. 4) I used my laptop to visit www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?wininet and burned it to a cd. Inserted the cd into my desktop and tried to copy the file, but I cannot get it to copy, I cannot remember the drive designation, I thought it would be d or e, but I have tried to copy and I am still getting the message, 'the system cannot find the path specified'. Is it a problem with the command, 'c:\windows\system32' ?   Please help! Thanks

mbseverson · Answer

I am sorry, I should have mentioned that - yes, I did unzip it before burning to CD.

I tried copying the file from the d drive to the c:\windows\system32 and received the message "the system cannot find the path specified".

what does that mean?

Missy

bamajim · Answer

mbseverson You said you burned it to a c/d. Did you extract the info before copying it to a c/d? The original is in a zip-file. bamajim Training at Malware Removal University

bamajim · Answer

mbseverson

Glad to here it. Yes those phony anti spyware warnings are very convincing, yet once clicked, thats when the trouble begins

If we can help with anything else, please reply

bamajim

Training at Malware Removal University

bamajim · Answer

mbseverson

If you are doing this by the way of C:> then your syntax must be exact, with proper spacing. The message you are getting is probably a syntax error.

Please reply with a link to the post you are refering to for your fix, and I'll try to help

bamajim

Training at Malware Removal University

mbseverson · Answer

I think I have found part of the problem - why I am getting the message "the system cannot find the path specified". - I looked for the system32 dir, and didn't find it in windows, I found it in winnt instead.

So, I went back through and did the dir search for the old wininet.dll file, and was able to copy and when I rebooted, it completed the reboot process and appears to be ok so far. I am finishing my norton install now, and am going to run a complete scan. Interestingly, when my desktop loaded, I got a balloon in the bottom right corner that appears to be one of those windows alerts, however, at closer inspection I realize it has some spelling/grammar errors - it says,"...click to download the mostup-to-date antipsyware...". Hmmmm. Wish I had paid closer attention - because I am almost positive that I clicked that balloon yesterday when all this started going wrong!

Thanks so much for your help! I'll be back if I continue to have problems.

Missy

formated · Answer

the common cause of wininet.dll is trojan.alemod. for procedures in getting rid of trojan.alemod and download a fresh wininet.dll to replace the corrupted one,  trojan.alemod removal

bluedrinkdsdave · Answer

Hi, I am having the same problems as ' mbseverson.' Unfortunately I am not an advanced user, and am unaware of how to search for and copy the necessary files from the command prompt. I have downloaded the .dll files on another computer and have them unzipped on cd ready to go.

I can get to the command prompt in safe mode but dont know where to go from there.

ie.:

search for location of system32 (windows or winnt)
copy the files from the CD or this directory

any help would be appreciated!!

thanks,

Dave

Virus & Spyware

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