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Ping Returning Beep + Symbols?

Corrupt Winsock

So if you’ve ever gotten a terrible spyware infection you might have bumped into this little bug.  When you try to ping something the system returns a beep from the system speaker and shows the host as “oy” (or any other symbol).  Heres a quick fix:

Open a command prompt window (Start > Run > cmd <enter>)

Next type the following string:

netsh winsock reset

Restart and your finished.

Enjoy =)