That's what I think should happen to these spyware and virus/trojan creators. Here's my problem;
I built a new computer w/ an AA8 abit mobo. It has an onboard gbit LAN card that has been working just fine. I had stepped away from the computer to work on refinishing a chest-o-drawers and when I can back I had a zillion pop ups.
Previously in the two months that I have had the computer this wasn't a problem and when I run adaware only a few cookies get found. But when I ran adaware this time, it blew up w/ hundreds of everything! Files, keys, programs etc. So as adaware was running, all of the sudden my computer did the autoshutdown countdown. No matter how many times I ran adaware, it would never finish before the computer shut itself down. It was as if the spyware was trying to prevent me from deleting it! So what I did was run it part way, then stop it, then clean out. This method worked and then I was able to run adaware again and get rid of the rest of the spyware. This is when the pain came.
Upon reboot from a successful and clean adaware run, I noticed my network icon in my tray had that exclamation point(!) blinking on it. I tried repair and no dice. I tried ipconfig release renew, no dice. All I have is the default windows ip. I can ping the loop back, but that's it. All the other computers I have can access the net no problem. The driver for the onboard LAN card has been deinstalled and reinstalled a zillion times, TCP/IP disabled and enabled, uninstalled and reinstalled and still no go.
I'm at my wits end and I think I have but a few choices. One, find help from you guys who might know something I could try. Two, buy a new ethernet card and see if that works. Three, format my HD and start over again.
I'd really like a simple solution to this, but I'm totally willing to reformat. I'm just not sure if that will fix my problem since it seems to be an issue w/ my onboard LAN. I wish I could use the net to use Hijack or something. Could anyone lend a hand? Thanks.
I built a new computer w/ an AA8 abit mobo. It has an onboard gbit LAN card that has been working just fine. I had stepped away from the computer to work on refinishing a chest-o-drawers and when I can back I had a zillion pop ups.
Previously in the two months that I have had the computer this wasn't a problem and when I run adaware only a few cookies get found. But when I ran adaware this time, it blew up w/ hundreds of everything! Files, keys, programs etc. So as adaware was running, all of the sudden my computer did the autoshutdown countdown. No matter how many times I ran adaware, it would never finish before the computer shut itself down. It was as if the spyware was trying to prevent me from deleting it! So what I did was run it part way, then stop it, then clean out. This method worked and then I was able to run adaware again and get rid of the rest of the spyware. This is when the pain came.
Upon reboot from a successful and clean adaware run, I noticed my network icon in my tray had that exclamation point(!) blinking on it. I tried repair and no dice. I tried ipconfig release renew, no dice. All I have is the default windows ip. I can ping the loop back, but that's it. All the other computers I have can access the net no problem. The driver for the onboard LAN card has been deinstalled and reinstalled a zillion times, TCP/IP disabled and enabled, uninstalled and reinstalled and still no go.
I'm at my wits end and I think I have but a few choices. One, find help from you guys who might know something I could try. Two, buy a new ethernet card and see if that works. Three, format my HD and start over again.
I'd really like a simple solution to this, but I'm totally willing to reformat. I'm just not sure if that will fix my problem since it seems to be an issue w/ my onboard LAN. I wish I could use the net to use Hijack or something. Could anyone lend a hand? Thanks.
