Computery Stuff

[fairyrune]

Last night I worked on fixing my computer.

Cleared the cache & cookies. No workie.

Re-started in safe mode. Lo! I have internets! This is good.

Ran Ad-Award in safe mode. It found something malicious; I don't remember exactly what. Removed that & re-started in regular mode.

Opened Firefox & got the same message about the connection to the network being reset or whatever. (I should really write that down.)

Re-started in safe mode, again. Ran Trend Micro 2009 virus scan AND House Call.

They found...nothing.

Now, I'm stumped. The fact that I only have internet in safe mode indicates a virus, right?

At least I know it's not a hardware issue. Didn't want to have to go out and buy a new network card.

Any thoughts? Anyone know of an online scan similar to House Call I could try?

Comments

[jedi-007.livejournal.com]

Okie doke... you might want to restart the computer in safe mode, and do a windows rollback to a previous state. Sounds like something is blocking your interwebs.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/getstarted/ballew_03may19.mspx

[mishmosh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was about to suggest reinstalling the drivers but what Archie is recommending is essentially the same thing.

[fairyrune]

Humbug. HUMBUG I SAY.

[fairyrune]

::sigh:: I figured it would come down to that. I haven't looked at that damn thing in AGES. I hope I had it set to automatically create restore points...

[toosha.livejournal.com]

My Macbook has decided it will connect to the internet in any place in the apartment except the 2 place I sit with it all the time. Yup anywhere but where I actually use it.

I feel your pain.

[fairyrune]

Technology is obnoxious, isn't it?

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

i totally had to rollback mine, reinstall a file and then re update it cause it ate something important during the last install. i swear.

[fairyrune]

Heh. My first laptop did something like that once. It ate a file it needed to load windows, and ALSO ate the command I needed to boot from the disk.

I had to wipe the whole damn thing and start over!

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

YES! mine sorta did that. turns out that this lappy has almost a linux based system in it as well. so gabe was able to finagle something. i don't know how. i was concerned, so i didn't watch. especially when people who WERE watching would go "OH MY GOD" heh.

[fairyrune]

Oh I totally CANNOT watch when someone is trying to fix something of mine.

Except if Steve is working on my car in the shop. THEN I watch. It's neat!

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

yep. i couldn't do it. i can do other people's and watch other people's but i was like YOU ARE CARVING OPEN MY BABY.

heh.

oh, well that is cool. :D

[fairyrune]

WORD, yo.

I'ma try to get mine working tonight. I DO so miss having proper internet at home. I just can't hang with Rich's little EEE PC. Plus he's been taking it to work, so it hasn't even been in the house for me to use.

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

so annoying. i fiend. my desktop hath taken a shit. it works. but it's like, a problem.

[justducky2204.livejournal.com]

I use panda cloud antivirus. But you need a working net connection. It's good, and it's free.

[grigoricennui.livejournal.com]

Ad-Aware sucks. Get a better anti-virus. Spy-bot is better and free. Since the virus probably reinstalled itself, run ad-aware again and do a google search for the name of the virus. There will be directions/programs to get rid of it.

J.

[fairyrune]

Well, I ran Ad Aware, Trend Micro, House Call, and whatever Symantec's free online scan is called.

Kind of a moot point at the moment, since we have no cable now. At all. Until tomorrow night. ::sobs::