FTP:connect problem - FTP does not work??

message from =?Utf-8?B?QWJvbWI=?= on 8 Jun 2004
Have a wierd one here - when I try to download AVG updates or invoke IDM
(Internet Download Manager) they keep failing.

Upon further inspection I tried to manually invoke FTP from the command line
and I get this <bad, incorrect> response:

C:\>ftp
ftp: connect
C:\>

...instead of something like this (from another Win2000 system on the same
network):

C:\>ftp
ftp>quit
C:\>

What is the problem? is my FTP executable under C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
corrupt or ?

The crazy thing is that pinging remote systems works fine and IE can download
things correctly.

HELP!

Thanks,

- Mark
 

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