Pinging °ÿ with 32 bytes of data

Just had this problem and took up a while to scan GOOGLE.COM for a solution. Well this is not always a case. But it really happens. Sometimes a WINDOWS XP machines have its winsock catalog corrupted. If you ping the loopback connection or any ip address at the COMMAND PROMPT :

PING -a -n 1 127.0.0.1

You will see this as the hostname reply :

Pinging °ÿ with 32 bytes of data:

That °ÿ is the sign that a WINSOCK CATALOG is corrupted. Here's the fix for that :

Before you do this you must have an administrative user access on that machine other wise you can't perform this fix

STEP 1 : Click START button then click RUN. Type "cmd" without the quotation mark and hit ENTER

STEP 2 : When the command prompt opens type "netsh winsock reset catalog" without the
quotation. Then hit ENTER.

STEP 3 : Reboot the machine and the problem will be cleared up.