A friend of mine is having problems with his Internet, he's on dial-up, and here's what he mentioned to me:
Since last night I've been unable to access the Google.com search engine page and my favourite site ( has recently started using the Google advert bar has also drastically slowed down for me up to the point where the pages won't always open.
I've run AVG, Adaware and SpybotSearch&Destroy with no findings although AVG's quick test, which I ran first, did find a change in the boot sector but was no more specific than that and didn't comment about it after an indepth scan.
I've used IE's Explorer to delete the off line cache and cookies and if anything that's slowed things down more.
Does anyone have an idea what's going on and how I can fix this?
He, however, can access the Exiled Gamers site on Opera, and both of the mentioned sites using Mozilla.. any ideas what the problem is?
Since last night I've been unable to access the Google.com search engine page and my favourite site ( has recently started using the Google advert bar has also drastically slowed down for me up to the point where the pages won't always open.
I've run AVG, Adaware and SpybotSearch&Destroy with no findings although AVG's quick test, which I ran first, did find a change in the boot sector but was no more specific than that and didn't comment about it after an indepth scan.
I've used IE's Explorer to delete the off line cache and cookies and if anything that's slowed things down more.
Does anyone have an idea what's going on and how I can fix this?
He, however, can access the Exiled Gamers site on Opera, and both of the mentioned sites using Mozilla.. any ideas what the problem is?