Bizarre Windows XP network problem

I noticed that same problem on my iMac yesterday. I configured windows part already with lots of applications installed. Do you mean that "reinstalling the Boot Camp drivers" is to reinstall boot camp again (remove windows partition and re-create boot camp)?

Hello
I have had my share of bizarre Windows XP problems. Welcome to my world! 🙂
Actually, I recently bailed on the Windows platform and got the first of 2 new iMacs in early April. Pardon me for jumping in on your thread/inquiry, but I thought I'd offer a thought or two based on my own miserable experience...
What antivirus/malware/Internet Security software do you have for the Windows portion of your iMac? The reason I'm asking is that Windows Updates are done with Active X technology; which isn't sandboxed, and Windows has had many problems with browser redirects, zero-day vulnerabilities, etc. In my experience, when someone hijacks/remotely accesses your network, they have to enable or disable certain processes in order to disguise their presence. I'm talking about disabling firewalls and Internet Security software, and even creating a virtual desktop and/or installing virtual adapters, drivers, and network devices over the network/Internet.
It sounds nuts, but I'm serious as a heart attack. (See 'Virtual Malware' in Security Focus and F-Secure.com sites for more information about malware that hides in a PC's BIOS, and is nearly impossible to remove.) In the "DOS Virtual Machine", drivers will have a .vdx extension. These drivers represent drivers that were the originals for hardware devices, and system calls for these devices are relegated to specific memory addresses. (Just in case you didn't know already.) 🙂

I apologize; I don't have much experience with Boot Camp. The only time I have seen it was when a miscreant did a "partial Boot Camp install" (whatever that means!) over remote access on my 2nd iMac. Maybe that's how my Intel iMac went from having Intel EFI to SMBIOS/BIOS? I found that while attempting to decipher my system's hardware device tree: EVERY change to every hardware device, driver, partition, USB hub, etc. was listed under "Software" and "Software Extensions". It took me a few minutes to realize why: By default, Software and Software Extension issues are not scrutinized --or reported-- using the Hardware Diagnostic Tool. So if someone takes their machine in to have it looked at, and the techs run the Diagnostic tool, the machine will get a "clean bill of health"; so to speak--- even if it's horrendously infected with malware, or hacked/remotely accessed.
(I had told Microsoft that my PC had been hacked. They insisted that it hadn't; they use the phrase "remote code execution" To me, it's po-TAY-to, po-TAH-to. If I didn't do it; it's a "hack".)

Contrary to popular belief, Macs are NOT immune to this stuff. There's a lot more out there than viruses, and as long as you have a hard drive and a network interface, you're vulnerable...

I just read over this, and I hope it doesn't sound too preachy or lecture-ish. That's not my intention, so please don't take offense. It sounds like you have a lot more experience than I do. At this point, my relevant experience can be summed up in a few words: Hacked 3 times.
(But there's an addendum: Traced the hack: 3 times.) So I suppose I get a little pedantic when I see the words "Windows XP", "Bizarre", "problem", and "network" in the context of what looks like a virtual machine issue, in a Mac forum...
Good luck to you, and best wishes.

I have a Macbook running OSX10.5.3 and bootcamp 2.1 with windows XP SP3. The problem is that it will not connect to my iMac unless I use an unsecure wireless network. Windows xp sees the iMac, asks for a password, but thats is far as it gets.
My Imac does have the problem that on startup or restart I need to switch internet sharing off then on to get it to work, apparently this is a known problem.
Anyone got any ideas I've run out?