Girl Geekette

There are various ways to tell if your Winsock is corrupt, or if it is being used by another program (such as a proxy or adware/spyware).

Signs of  Winsock errors and corruption include :

- You try to surf the web but you get 404 errors or errors showing the browser cannot find the server.
- If you do a “release & Renew on your IP address, if you get errors such as:

• An error occurred while renewing interface ‘Internet’: An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket.
• Unable to contact driver Error code 2. The operation failed since no adapter is in the state permissible for this operation.
• The attempted operation is not supported for the type of object referenced.