typing tracert or ping in MS-DOS Prompt comes up with strange letters

blablah

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typing tracert or ping in MS-DOS Prompt comes up with strange letters

« on: January 07, 2006, 10:06:18 PM »

Hi, I cant seem to ping a site because whenever I open my MS-DOS Prompt and type
tracert www.google.com or ping www.google.com, it'll come up with very strange letters like a triangle, some smiley faces, a heart, a clover, a spade, a music notes, and some other letters. I don't even know what this means. I access my command prompt by going to start>run>command. Also, whenever I type cmd in start>run it pops up and disappears... I'm very confused right now.


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Re: typing tracert or ping in MS-DOS Prompt comes up with strange letters

« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2006, 10:14:22 PM »

yes i would say something is wrong but i have no idea. does it do this to any trace routes or ping to other sites.

here is mine so you know the site works

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Eebobb>tracert google.com

Tracing route to google.com [72.14.207.99]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 10 ms 10 ms 9 ms er1.nyc1.speakeasy.net [216.254.112.1]
2 9 ms 7 ms 8 ms 220.ge-0-1-0.cr2.nyc1.speakeasy.net [69.17.83.20
1]
3 10 ms 9 ms 8 ms core1-0-2-0.lga.net.google.com [198.32.160.130]

4 27 ms 26 ms 31 ms 72.14.236.219
5 31 ms 26 ms 26 ms 66.249.94.74
6 27 ms 30 ms 26 ms 66.249.94.96
7 32 ms 26 ms 27 ms 72.14.207.99

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\Eebobb>ping google.com

Pinging google.com [72.14.207.99] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=249
Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=249
Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=248
Reply from 72.14.207.99: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=248

Ping statistics for 72.14.207.99:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 27ms, Maximum = 27ms, Average = 27ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Eebobb>


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Re: typing tracert or ping in MS-DOS Prompt comes up with strange letters

« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2006, 10:33:11 PM »

It looks nothing like that. Neutral


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Re: typing tracert or ping in MS-DOS Prompt comes up with strange letters

« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2006, 10:34:43 PM »

Download this software and run trace and ping from it.
http://www.ks-soft.net/ip-tools.eng/


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Re: typing tracert or ping in MS-DOS Prompt comes up with strange letters

« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2006, 10:36:58 PM »

i have that program and its good to use for a number of things.


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Re: typing tracert or ping in MS-DOS Prompt comes up with strange letters

« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2006, 10:42:43 PM »

Cool, I guess that worked Very Happy

, but it might seem that I have a some malware on my system cause I can't open regedit, or cmd. Confused

http://www.testmy.net/forum/index.php?topic=9431.0
http://vic.zonelabs.com/tmpl/body/CA/virusDetails.jsp?VId=41687

I was wondering... if there were anyway I can repair this?


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Re: typing tracert or ping in MS-DOS Prompt comes up with strange letters

« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2006, 12:01:12 AM »

Here is an online scan: [LINK] You'll need to shut down your firewall.

Otherwise, you can find some great info on free software for download on our Make It Faster STICKY.


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Re: typing tracert or ping in MS-DOS Prompt comes up with strange letters

« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2006, 01:53:15 AM »

blablah ;You probably have some corrupt files but try this.
Type cd\ after the command prompt this should give you this for a prompt C:\>
after you do this type cd\windows if you want windows it should look like this C:\>cd\windows
that should give you this prompl C:\windows>
Try your ping or tracert after these prompts.


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Re: typing tracert or ping in MS-DOS Prompt comes up with strange letters

« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2006, 07:57:53 AM »

reminds me of what my cmd entries looked like after getting "nuked" back when i first started using win98 and playing HalfLife mod's, don't piss off an admin in TFC!


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Re: typing tracert or ping in MS-DOS Prompt comes up with strange letters

« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2006, 05:38:20 PM »

O yeah, I already removed the virus a llooonnggg while back, I just wanna know how to repair my files.

And cholla, I tried what you said and it still looks the same. Confused


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Re: typing tracert or ping in MS-DOS Prompt comes up with strange letters

« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2006, 05:44:57 PM »

Extract this archive to C:\Windows\System32


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Re: typing tracert or ping in MS-DOS Prompt comes up with strange letters

« Reply #11 on: January 08, 2006, 05:52:31 PM »

blablah : I tried that was my best suggestion.Unless you ISP is sending garbage back to block tracert & ping.Some don't allow ping or tracert you might call & ask them.
My ISP blocks them they say because this prevents DOS attacks.They don't send garbage back though.


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