Looking for assistance

[lrubin28]

Boring topic I know, but after 10 days trying to fix this...

I have 3 pcs. The 2 laptops connect fine. Suddenly the desktop, which was wired to the router/modem stopped connecting to the net. I thought it was the integrated adapter (HP Pavillion). I bought a wireless adapter, but same problem. I tested the adapter on another pc and it works fine.

I have done netsh winsock reset dozens of times. Have reset router dozens of times. IPCONFIG/ALL shows the wireless router, but with a 169.x.x.x IP. I manually went into the ipv4 properties and told it to use 192.168.1.100. I've turned off every firewall type program I can find, although my kids do use some peer 2 peer but I think they are all off.

Can anyone please suggest anything else? I know its not the router or the adapter. ARGGGHHHHHH!!

Frustrated in Boston

[wimiadmin]

Yep....I suspect something they've downloaded from the peer to peer has messed you up.

Download Spyware Doctor from one of your other computers, stick it on a thumb drive and install it on the problem PC and run a full scan.

Since you've manually assigned the IP and still got nowhere, even with an alternate NIC, we can pretty much rule out hardware.

I would also disconnect the machine from the network until you scan and clean the system.

[lrubin28]

spyware doctor tells me i am unable to connect to the spyware doctor engine, probably because i cannot connect to the internet.

[wimiadmin]

try rebooting in safe mode by pressing the F8 key immediately after the BIOS screen. You may have to press the F8 key numerous times to get he menu.

Then choose safe mode with networking. When the desktop comes up, see if you can get to the internet. If not, try running Spyware Doctor at this point and see what happens. If you get the same message, you might want to try Ad-Aware by lavasoft which is free or SpyBot Search & Destroy which is also free. Those 2 may not need an online db to function.