Help!

[Jeadan]

Someone PLEASE help, i've been on 7 hours. X_X

[LigH]

Please stop that whining. It doesn't speed things up. People look into threads when they look, not when you cry.

What are 7 hours. When PlaneShift gets updated, sometimes players had to wait a week until the server went public again.
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Windows XP ships a "ping.exe", not a "ping.com". I guess your system has been hooked. Get a good antivirus, and get a good malware remover. And get a specialist in your town, that he can sit at your desk.

[Jeadan]

screw it guys, i give up. I'm going to find a better game, thanks for the help. But it was useless.

[Pizik]

The problem is that something is blocking you from connetctin to Laanx. As displayed in the other thread by you getting a 404 error when trying to connect to the laanx server's IP address (The thing both Acraig and I gave you (the string of numbers). If you cannot connect to it in your web browser then I can only assume that you have that page (and the server) blocked by some software or by your ISP. The software could be the firewall but you claimed to have disabled it (if that is even possible without Admin rights which you claim not to have). The other option would be some kind of NetNanny software. If that is so, then speak to your parents, the owner of the computer, whoever set it up for you, or the company you bought it from.

We are only able to help up to a certain point, we can give instructions and advice but if you are unable or unwilling to heed the advice or follow the instructions we cannot help.

Take care, I hope you find and enjoy that 'better game'. 

[LigH]

It's not the game which is bad. It's your system. Get someone to fix it.

[Beniel]

I certainly hope the "better game" does not end up being spoonscape.

[NULL]

What do i do?!?!

I use Ubuntu myself, so all of the Vista'ish querks are way outside my experience.
But from the command prompt can you use any of these programs?
tracert
netstat
regedit
tasklist

I did a quick google search using "ping.com is not a valid win32 application" as the search string and found some interesting things. (Took me about 30 seconds total)
From this website.

When I go and launch command prompt through the start menu and type in anything legal like "ping iinet.net.au" without the quotes. I get this error:
C:\Windows\system32\ping.com is not a valid win32 application
followed by a message in the prompt (not in a dialog), Access is Denied
Any help on resolving this error would be great.

Ok, I found the cause of the problem. I installed ad-aware in addition to spybot and ran its scanning tool and when it finished nod32 told me I had a virus, I deleted it on the spot and my computers running fine now.

Im changing all my bank passwords now.

Heres a screen of the alert.

img98.imageshack.us/my.php?image=oohgr9.jpg

It was a rootkit trojan!

If you even come back to read this. Good luck with the rootkit.