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Title: Internet Problems.... i need help
Post by: Chaos68 on August 19, 2004, 11:01:01 AM

A few weeks ago i bought a HP 3200 computer and a ATI Radeon 9600xt card.  I hooked everything up and installed the graphics card.. but the internet is getting F*cked up!   I get a ton of pop-up's even though i have a trial pop up blocker running and Google toolbar installed.  Also 8 out of 10 times i open the internet the page will "not respond" and i have to cold boot the damn computer.       I run Spybot Destroyer and find 1-5 spyware on my computer so i delete and my computer is find for another day then the next day...BOOM internet stops responding.:mad: :mad: :mad:

anyone know what i could do?

Title: Internet Problems.... i need help
Post by: ra on August 19, 2004, 11:02:43 AM

Don't buy HP.

Title: Internet Problems.... i need help
Post by: Coolridr on August 19, 2004, 11:03:32 AM

did you try hitting yor dailup/cable/dsl modem with a hammer?
That'll fix your internet problems for good:D

Title: Internet Problems.... i need help
Post by: Sandman on August 19, 2004, 11:13:13 AM

What OS are you running?

According to this article (http://news.com.com/2010-1032-5307831.html), there are some spyware programs that are practically impossible to remove. Think it's level 6 from the Spyware Inferno (http://news.com.com/pdf/ne/2004/081204wienbar.pdf).

My son's computer was doing something similar the other day. I had popups hitting even while not browsing. I deleted and disabled every application I could find, but I couldn't kill it.

So... I wiped the drive.

Title: Internet Problems.... i need help
Post by: Nashwan on August 19, 2004, 11:28:25 AM

Stop using Internet Explorer.

Download Firefox:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

I kept getting really bad spyware problems. Constant popups, Google toolbar was no use.

After about 6 cycles of cleaning them out, surfiing for a day, getting them back, I started using Firefox.

The spyware is still on my PC, but it only runs when I run Internet Explorer, which I haven't done for months.

Title: Internet Problems.... i need help
Post by: Maverick on August 19, 2004, 01:39:07 PM

Stop accepting cookies from almost all sites and don't run active-x operations unless you are sure it's a good site. That cut out most of my spyware problems and I use IE.

Title: Internet Problems.... i need help
Post by: Eagler on August 19, 2004, 01:53:40 PM

format the drive, re-install the OS and start from scratch

and be more careful on the net going forward

Title: Internet Problems.... i need help
Post by: Chaos68 on August 19, 2004, 02:17:20 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Nashwan
Stop using Internet Explorer.

Download Firefox:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

I

Great  i forgot about Mozilla!   cool i'll be using it from now on.


K, im using Mozilla!  oh what a great thing..... so nice.  :D

My wife bought me the HP 3200, i cant complain too :)