HELP!!!!! My PC wont stay online............

[shoboy]

That's when I can even connect! Quick history............... I dumped my main drive last night and reloaded it today. Got everything up to date, SP2, DX, ect...........

I set the Firewall OFF, set everything in INternet options to default, and I've only installed NORTON AV since the redo, but this prob started before I even did norton.

No probs during the updates. Everything was great. But after SP2, which was the last thing to update/install, I couldn't go online.

Now I've set my network connection to auto detect settings, but I have to disable my network connection then enable it in order to get online. Then, as I'm waiting now, IE will hang when loading a new page or something and then I cant do squat! Norton and OE cant find any connections until I disable my network connection and re-enable it. This then only gives me about 1-2 minutes before it just stops working.

With everything set to default, firewall OFF, and a fresh install of XP Pro that's up to date, WTF is going on???? What am I missing?

I have other PC's, either mine or friends houses, that I can check here on, so please help me out!

[NO2STARFORCE]

You connected to the intarweb with a XP computer and no firewall?

[stingray]

Yeah, what did you turn your Firewall off for?

Ok, you built the prison, you painted the walls, you put in the furniture and staff and then the prisoners and then you left the doors wide open just to be sure.

WTF? graemlins/av_wacko.gif

Internet Explorer + Internet spell T.R.O.U.B.L.E.

You don't even have to surf.

[Wave]

I'm sorry for being ignorant and changing the subject, but who cares about a firewall other than personal information.

Now and then as an adult I download Porn, use Map Quest, along with visiting sites such as CompUSA.

Does this make me an evil person or the idiots watching me?

[stingray]

Originally posted by Wave:
I'm sorry for being ignorant and changing the subject, but who cares about a firewall other than personal information.

Now and then as an adult I download Porn, use Map Quest, along with visiting sites such as CompUSA.

Does this make me an evil person or the idiots watching me? Sorry mate, but it's not just about personal information, it's about leaving your system open to outside attack, enabling some lowlife somewhere to use your system as a Zombie to distribute malware around the net.

[Barney]

You have dsl or cable?
Look in your modem logs for synch issues

[Keith L. D.]

Look at this site in the second post on SP2...

http://forums.g4tv.com/messageview.cfm?catid=64&threadid=192397


Maybe some help there... av_biggrin.gif

[zauggru]

Originally posted by Wave:
I'm sorry for being ignorant and changing the subject, but who cares about a firewall other than personal information.

Now and then as an adult I download Porn, use Map Quest, along with visiting sites such as CompUSA.

Does this make me an evil person or the idiots watching me? It's not just spyware a firewall protects against, but hackers and other things that can literally destroy your computer.

[shoboy]

Because with the firewall on I couldn't do ****, that's why I turned it off. I was thinking something was set wrong in the firewall blocking me from everything.

Now Norton is telling me that MOUSEHS.exe is a virus in my system32 folder, and it cant do crap about it, nor can I, it's write protected.

This is my 5th attempt at getting online, and I probably have about 1 minute left before it stops av_mad.gif

[stingray]

I can't be sure but the symptoms seem to indicate that you are a victim of the MSBlaster virus... there's a fix for it at the Symantec website. You don't have to surf on a dubious website to get that particular virus. Neat, isn't it?

[shoboy]

It's the fricken WALLZ virus. W32.WALLZ or as the file it is labeled, MOUSEHS.exe from my previous post.

There is no AV fix for it, but I can remove it manually thru the registry and stuff. I dont like messing with the reg, so I'll wait till my frined does it.

I HATE FRICKEN VIRUS WRITERS! They deserve death!!!!

[Wingnut]

Will it clean if you boot into safe mode and then scan?

[Patrick.Cox]

I'm sorry for being ignorant and changing the subject, but who cares about a firewall other than personal information.

Now and then as an adult I download Porn, use Map Quest, along with visiting sites such as CompUSA.

Does this make me an evil person or the idiots watching me?

Wow... just wow. Ignorant indeed.

You can surf what you like, do what you like. However, without a firewall and virus scanner you are going to end up with a compromised machine (especially on broadband) that will become a remailer or virus delivery system. Then of course there is the opening of your system to someone outside your home so they can view your files (all of them, such as tax records, passwords for websites, personal email, etc). And they can thrash your system software forcing you dump and reload. Oh, and sometimes they turn you into an IRC or FTP dump for warez too.

Luck to you.

[Wave]

Yeah, I know it sounds pretty ignorant but I guess I just gave up on this computer being it's so out dated.

I use to format every other month back in the days but my last full install was 12/25/03.

[shoboy]

Originally posted by Wingnut:
Will it clean if you boot into safe mode and then scan? Nope.

But when mousehs.exe does come on, it can be turned off just by closing it from task manager. Odd how easy it is to turn off when you think about how malicious it is, how it gets in your system, how it makes copies of itself in various folder and named something else, how impossible it is to get rid of........yet simply turning it off as a process works fine until you reboot.

[One-Winged Angel]

Have you tried finding the file, right-clicking on it, going to Properties, taking off the read-only checkmark (which I'm guessing it has if it's saying it's write-protected), then letting Norton take care of it?

[Sno]

Originally posted by zauggru:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Wave:
I'm sorry for being ignorant and changing the subject, but who cares about a firewall other than personal information.

Now and then as an adult I download Porn, use Map Quest, along with visiting sites such as CompUSA.

Does this make me an evil person or the idiots watching me? It's not just spyware a firewall protects against, but hackers and other things that can literally destroy your computer. </font>[/QUOTE]****, i was doing a clean install on my computer a while back, and it took just a couple of minutes without a firewall for me to be hit by a host of viruses and attacks.

You might have been able to fly without a firewall in the past, but these days it's just not feasible.

[Barney]

It's a clean install right. Quicker to just format and start again.

[Sno]

Originally posted by Barney:
It's a clean install right. Quicker to just format and start again. Unfortunately, in those momments while you're trying to update your system to the current security standards, you're open to a whole range of attacks. (Which is exactly what happened to me, so i just abandoned the infected setup, formatted again, and found a better way to do it.)

[coldwave]

If you go the re-format route, you're better off making a slip-streamed WINXP CD w/SP2 already on it. SAve you a lot of hassle!

- coldwave

[shoboy]

I thought about just dumping it and redoing it again, but that's how I got it in the first place. WALLZ is constantly out there, searching for systems without the update/fix. I got it in the time it took to update windows. From a fresh install on the first release of XP, it took me 5 different updates and restarts. Somewhere in that time, I think between 4 and 5, I got it.

OWA, I did right click it and check the properties. You cant do squat with it. The boxes are not checked, but they are grayed out and un-usable. Nortons bulleting about it has a LONG *** roundabout way of getting rid of it. You have to remove a registry entry first, then 1 copy of the .exe, then another registry entry, ect........ It's an odd *** routine you have to follow, with restarts, or it will just reinstall itself from other copies................

Well, after I figured out that I can shut it off in task manager, Norton got a new update that was capable of removing it. So now I'm good to go.

I just need to do 1 last full system scan, then make a System Restore point. I've never done it, but I imagine it's not hard.

I need to seriously look into Norton Ghost and clone an image of a "SAFE" Windows installation graemlins/av_saywhat.gif