5punk

Alrighty, my main computer, the one i use to play games on, has gone decidedly tits up. I turn it on and initially its fine. But after about 3-4 mins, the internet goes down like its got a heavy load on it. But it hasnt, as if i go on with one of my other computers, all is well.

Checks out ok with spybot S&D, and im running norton antivirus as i type. Any clues if they dont work? Im sure some of you guys are more technically apt than me when it comes to networking.

help!

Highly odd.
How are you connected?
Does anything odd turn up in the Event Viewer?

shared dsl over a router. And like i say, the other two computers connected, all with the same settings, are working fine, so i wouldnt have thought it was the broadband itself that was wobbly.

as for the event viewer, it bitches about my mouse a few times, but its been doing that for ages, to no apparent ill effect
other than that, theres something about CTP/IP reacheng the security limit imposed on the number of TCP connect attempts, but is that just something to do with bittorrent?(which i use for....er...downloading linux distros. yes)
And theres something about two of my computers fighting over which one is the "master browser"
and finally, some windows file protection thing, complaining about es.dll. Whats that all about then?

what level is it patched to? It sounds like could be sasser or blaster or some such thing impacting on it. If its well patch just ignore me, I shall have me a think

I agree, it does sound mightily like some such viral thingie, but the windows update is well up to date, probably last checked yesterday. As is the virus checker.

hmm. Im going to reboot again, out of frustration.

well, looks like i'll have to put it down to sunspots or something, as its working fine since the reboot. But then, the computers in the house have always had quite a healthy dollop of wierd in them.

Maybe we have anti-technology ghosts...oooh...

Have you got Ad-aware?, I run that aswell as Spybot, often they both find nasty things the other didn't.

And typical that the standard I.T. support response to problems actually worked; "Just turn it off and on again that'll sort it out" :o

yeah, got spybot and adaware running. Both found nothing significant. Wierdness.

Ah well

It'll be the imp misbehaving then

http://www.hamsterrepublic.com/james/technomancy/

Arf!
that last one reminds me of my uni course. When we got some compliling error with our programs that we didnt understand, we would frequently start "infinate monkey coding" rather than try and work out what the problem was.

"does this work? no. does this work? no. how about this? no. I know, i'll put in some more semicolons. no. Delete this bit? hurrah! it works! why? buggered if i know...."