I am having the same issue. I've been playing without problems since the patch, but today my antivirus software seems to have suddenly decided that the DLL file is some kind of terrorist. It would not let me download the changes again until I uninstalled Avast! Free Antivirus altogether. Once I did that, I was able to get the download again, and EQ started up normally with all my characters intact.
I don't even know if Avast is a good choice; the friend who built this computer for me several years ago initially recommended it. When I removed it and restarted, my poor computer of course started in on how vulnerable and unprotected it feels without the antivirus stuff, so I tried to reinstall it and to set everything in the EQ directory as an exclusion. Now my computer seems to be in some sort of chicken little-ish panic mode; it's scanning anything and everything on it, and it still doesn't like the DLL file ("wsock32.dll is infected by MSIL:Agent-BA [Trj]").
I hate computers.
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