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Guys, It turned out that the outdoor splitter was rusted through inside the CATV box....Tech replaced all the wiring...Of course I reformatted my hard drive for no reason then! well anyway, internet is back!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the tips.......... Vince

RR tech coming today.... Thanks Vince

linney, I went ahead and re-formatted the hard drive. Put a clean XP Pro SP1 OS on. Ran the extensive cleaning procedure called about by http://www.castlecops.com/forums.html on the new xp load...Of course pretty clean... I have Roadrunner Cust Serv. telling me the pinged me 100X 50 packets...

Hi, I have 2 XP SP1 machines that are connected via router. Working fine for 3 years. The cable modem is brand new to try fix the problem, Roadrunner gave me a new one. All lights green, cust serice says all pinging is rock solid.. XP firewall OFF I removed the router and connetced directly to...

MasterRacker, You right, instead of fighting it just stay clear of the suspicious sites............ Thanks Vince

Thanks for the help, Vince

MasterRacker, I guess I miscommunicated!! You click on a link on a particuliar website and 15 IE .exe sessions open.... Yor system was clean prior...typical warez site... How do you stop that site from opening 15 .exe of Internet Explorer If you were to hard-kill the Internet explorer.exe...

I'm starting to get a more secure PC...Outpost Firewall Pro, Kapsersky AV, Adaware SE, Ewido, Spybot, torjan hunter, etc... Even with all these toys, I clicked on a link in IE 6, and it opened 4-5 IE windows, as fast as I clicked on 2-3 to close, 7-8 more opened... Is there a utilty that stops...

SuaveRick, I have an SMC router, right now there is just a password to get into the settings menu. What security features are you utilizing on the Linksys? Thanks Vince

Aquias, I will go with your defense app set-up, except I have outpost firewall instead of XP. I made clean install of XP Pro, then installed all hardware drivers. 2nd, I made a clone of the drive with Norton ghost. This is the 2nd time I have been burnt! Thanks again for the tips, Vince

Aquias, Do you have XP firewall, Norton AV, Spybot,Microsoft Spyware Beta,Spyware Blaster, "Hijack This" all running at windows startup? Thanks for the list, Vince

Last night I could not logon through safe mode or admin account... I gave up and formatted the drive and re-installed XP PRO. I was wondering what protection apps you guys were running, real-time monitoring and once a week/month inspection. Across the board- firewall, antivirus, spyware...

Mike, When I press F8, do I want to boot up in safe mode and try to run cleaning tools like spybot etc.. or should I select last good windows config? thanks for the quick reply, Vince

Sun night my IE home page was hijacked to web-search.com (not sure of exact spelling). The top border in windows explorer was modified too, casino, travel icons etc. I shutdown the PC. Last night I powered the PC back up. I created 2 accounts on the PC both with admin privileges. When I enter...

I installed regrun 3..... The typing delay went away...weird!! Vince

Hi, I just finished running spybot, adaware and spyguard. modified my host file. Now I thought was clean, all popups are gone. I thought all spyware was removed. Something weird has started happening tonight, as I type in this message box all is normal, however if i type a search word at...

linney , Thanks for the info, Vince

I went ahead and replaced the host file with the superhost file given at www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm. That cleared up a lot. Except for homepage capture by searchnav.com I ran spybot in advanced mode. It cleared all but 1 spyware, please reboot the app stated, after reboot, killed the...

Thanks guys for the quick reply; Both PC's are behind an SMC router w/ cable modem. I have Spybot Search and Destroy. I never knew that Spybot had that host file replace option?? I have outpost firewall pro 2.1, and adaware installed too. I guess the popups have not been that bad. The thing...

I was thinking about replacing the existing host file with a super host file on my 2 XP Pro machines that some sites suggest to block popups.. When I go down the directory path to: c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\ there are 3 files contained that have the word "host" in the title: 1) "hosts"...