slooow connection

I'm running a cable connection at 100Mbs....just recently my connection has
'apparently' dropped to that of an old dial up connection, giving me 30Kbs
if i'm lucky. I checked the lan connection, it appears as tho everything is
alright there, i have also checked other computers on the network and they
seem fine, so it leads me to believe that i have some sort of adware/virus
on my system. I just ran spybot again, it came up with a couple things, but
didn't solve the problem. I run AVG and Norton on my system and they found
nothing either. Perhaps i'm just missing something simple, but if anyone
could help out it would be greatly appreciated, this one has me stumped.
Thanks.

~Senturon

Senturon

On Thu, 27 May 2004 10:18:20 -0400, "Senturon" <*email_address_deleted*> wrote:

>I'm running a cable connection at 100Mbs....just recently my connection has
>'apparently' dropped to that of an old dial up connection, giving me 30Kbs
>if i'm lucky. I checked the lan connection, it appears as tho everything is
>alright there, i have also checked other computers on the network and they
>seem fine, so it leads me to believe that i have some sort of adware/virus
>on my system. I just ran spybot again, it came up with a couple things, but
>didn't solve the problem. I run AVG and Norton on my system and they found
>nothing either. Perhaps i'm just missing something simple, but if anyone
>could help out it would be greatly appreciated, this one has me stumped.
>Thanks.
>
>~Senturon

Senturon,

Get HijackThis from <http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3155>. HJT
complements SSD, but looks in a different way for crapware on your system.
1) Install and run HijackThis. Do NOT make any changes immediately. Save the
HJT Log.
2) Have your HJT log interpreted by experts at one or more of the following
forums (and post it, or a link to your forum post, here):
<http://forums.net-integration.net/>
<http://forums.spywareinfo.com/>
<http://forums.tomcoyote.org/>
<http://www.wilderssecurity.com/>

Also, try a system evaluation:
http://www.pcpitstop.com/default.asp

And please don't contribute to the spread and success of email address mining
viruses. Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself a bit
safer when posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest of the
internet - never post your address unmunged.
http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

Chuck

> I checked the lan connection,

How?

> i have also checked other computers on the network

How?

and they
> so it leads me to believe that i have some sort of adware/virus
> on my system.

It doesn't have to be your system that is blasting the network
and dragging it down.

> I just ran spybot again, it came up with a couple things, but
> didn't solve the problem.

It never does. Spybot can't detect the original dropper, nor
does it look for viruses, worms, trojans, etc ... Neither does
AdAware.

> I run AVG and Norton on my system

Legal and updated? Or, typical, 2 years out of date.

> Perhaps i'm just missing something simple,

You are. You don't have an uptodate AV program, and
your security people are not enforcing it. You are probably
not patched at all, and possibly, your system has been
hacked by off-shore mp3'ers, and you are running an
ftp-server pushing music files. When the lawyers walk in
with a "cease and desist" don't be surprised. Unhide
all your files, and do a search on *.mp3. If you find
anything suspicious, pull your network cable, and
back up your working files. Reformat and re-install
from scratch. THEN .. under those conditions, you
are now very popular around the world, and the mp3ers
are going to keep trying to get back in to your system ..
stay off line until you are totally patched ( buy a cd
from MS ) and have an uptodate AV program
installed. Plan on being down about a month.

johns

johns

Chuck wrote:
> On Thu, 27 May 2004 10:18:20 -0400, "Senturon"
> <*email_address_deleted*> wrote:
>
>> I'm running a cable connection at 100Mbs....just recently my
>> connection has 'apparently' dropped to that of an old dial up
>> connection, giving me 30Kbs if i'm lucky. I checked the lan
>> connection, it appears as tho everything is alright there, i have
>> also checked other computers on the network and they seem fine, so
>> it leads me to believe that i have some sort of adware/virus on my
>> system. I just ran spybot again, it came up with a couple things,
>> but didn't solve the problem. I run AVG and Norton on my system and
>> they found nothing either. Perhaps i'm just missing something
>> simple, but if anyone could help out it would be greatly
>> appreciated, this one has me stumped. Thanks.
>>
>> ~Senturon
>
> Senturon,
>
> Get HijackThis from
> <http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3155>. HJT complements
> SSD, but looks in a different way for crapware on your system. 1)
> Install and run HijackThis. Do NOT make any changes immediately.
> Save the HJT Log. 2) Have your HJT log interpreted by experts at one
> or more of the following forums (and post it, or a link to your forum
> post, here): <http://forums.net-integration.net/>
> <http://forums.spywareinfo.com/>
> <http://forums.tomcoyote.org/>
> <http://www.wilderssecurity.com/>
>
> Also, try a system evaluation:
> http://www.pcpitstop.com/default.asp
>
> And please don't contribute to the spread and success of email
> address mining viruses. Learn to munge your email address properly,
> to keep yourself a bit safer when posting to open forums. Protect
> yourself and the rest of the internet - never post your address
> unmunged. http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm
>
> Cheers,
> Chuck
> Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

Don't forget about Ad-Aware:

http://www.lavasoftusa.com

The Prophecy

"Senturon" <> wrote in message news:<>...
> I'm running a cable connection at 100Mbs....just recently my connection has
> 'apparently' dropped to that of an old dial up connection, giving me 30Kbs
> if i'm lucky. I checked the lan connection, it appears as tho everything is
> alright there, i have also checked other computers on the network and they
> seem fine, so it leads me to believe that i have some sort of adware/virus
> on my system. I just ran spybot again, it came up with a couple things, but
> didn't solve the problem. I run AVG and Norton on my system and they found
> nothing either. Perhaps i'm just missing something simple, but if anyone
> could help out it would be greatly appreciated, this one has me stumped.
> Thanks.
>
> ~Senturon

Have you checked your LAN traffic? Are you only getting 30kbps total,
or is that all that's left over? Do you use a software firewall? If
so, many of them can show you what programs or services are connected
and their throughput. If nothing is filling your data pipe, then
there may be some issue like a driver conflict or configuration
oversight on your computer. Try diabling the most recently installed
program and see if your throughput improves.

N1POP