I've got a Gigabyte mother board with an AMD 2.3Ghz Athalon running XP PRO with all the updates. Until a week ago, everything was fine. Then I was struck with the SmitFraud worm. I thought I'd cleared it all out OK, but I've got a new problem and I wonder if it is caused by a remnant of the worm. I've got a Comcast cable modem and a Linksys router installed, and I'm using another computer through them to write this (so things are fine there).

First IE7 quit connecting to the internet. However, Firefox, Netscape, and Outlook Express WERE working fine---until I went online and a site suggested that I remove the winsock and that would fix the problem. Now it won't connect to anything, even though I reinstalled the default winsock with the XP network wizard. However, it DOES see my router. It is sending and receiving packets just fine AND when I remove the ethernet cable from my router, I get an error message on the screen.

Anybody have any help for me?