I use the latest Firefox. A few days ago, I can't get into yahoo.com. It'll just say "waiting for yahoo.com to respond" down at the bottom. I opened IE7 and nothing.

Then I try to Google search via Firefox. I can go to google.com but the searches won't work. It'll just sit there. I go to IE7 and google search works.

Then I google search yahoo sports and I get in no problem. I log into my fantasy league. I'll go in check Monday, then Tuesday, but then I'll click Wednesday (for example) and the link doesn't work. No response. Then I open another tab and go to espn.com for example, and it works fine. Some other sites like careerbuilder don't work neither.

I ran a virus seach through norton and uncovered 62 virii. I quarantined all but 4. Now I ran it last night so when I woke up this morning, it was done. I tried going into yahoo (haven't restarted PC yet as I was leaving for work) and it still didn't work. I'll check again but methinks it won't work. I did run adaware and spybot last week but it still worked. I even recovered with Spybot and restored my last session to no avail before I ran Norton. The virii were either Downloader or Trojan.vundo.

 

i had the same thing on my last laptop, uninstall firefox and reinstall it worked for me at least.

 

porn dload viruses?

 

Why would you NOT quarantine all of the virii?

 

I'm still amazed at the fact that there are people that think they don't need anti-virus software even if they surf the web and exchange files with other people.

 

So, what you're telling us is: There are four active viruses on your computer...and you still wonder why it's not working.

 

stay away from the pr0n. and if a site (that's porn) wont load in mozilla, visit another one instead of going to IE

 

 

i bareback it on teh interweb. no issues.

 

Umm because it won't let me quarantine them.

I'd uninstall FF but the issue occurs with IE also. And I'm trying to visit yahoo not pr0n. Plus my wife is on Myspace, perezhilton, and facebook all day.

 

Use trendmicro, or the online scan from Panda?? For regular use, I recommend AVG. It's free and works. Never had it tell me it couldn't quarantine a virus...

 

Are you using a addon called Faster Fox?

 

There's your problem right there. If she's gonna be on those sites, you need to have your AV on and up to date. There are tons of spam and links on those sites that can install viruses onto your computer. If your AV is expired, buy a new subscription, program, or download a good free one such as AVG. It wouldn't hurt to install a firewall program also. A good one that has worked well for me is ZoneAlarm Firewall free edition. You can find it at download.com

 

You still have a virus...Call a doctor.

 

No I haven't added anything to my FF.

Thanks for the ideas guys. Hopefully google will work so I can d/l them. What do you guys think about doing a system restore to last week before it occurred?

 

restart your computer hit f8 until the screen pops up select "safe mode with networking". after the computer boots, open up IE and "trend micro virus scan" once your on the site go and select the free online virus scan let it do its thing then quarantine the damn virus's...

 

OK I did ^ and it didn't work. The good news is that I did quarantine everything. However here's a clue. While in safe mode when the virus scan was running, I opened another tab and yahoo.com worked perfectly. So now I'm thinking one of the spyware softwares might be blocking something but like I stated earlier, I can do the workaround through google and eventually the links stop working. Once again, it's not isolated to just FF or IE so it seems it's not a browser issue. Do you think uninstalling Spybot and/or AdAware might work? What about my original idea of restoring to last week?

 

www.microsoft.com/security

 

What am I looking for? Someone suggested HijackThis. Any opinions?

 

Windows Defender.

 

i thought this was another thread from eggplant.

 

No validation code because I bought this computer off a dude.

 

I still say AVG AV, ZoneAlarm Free firewall, and Adaware free edition would work great for you.

 

Try Hitman Pro.

It installs, updates and runs a bunch of spyware scanners like Ad-aware, Spybot Search and Destroy, Spyware Blaster, etc.

It will give you a final compiled report when it is done.

 

Gargoyle. It's about $800, but it works.

 

I have 2 profiles on the computer. One for me and one for my wife. I went on hers out of curiosity and the internet works perfectly on her profile. I'm really thinking this is not spyware but just some stupid setting on my profile. Ideas?

 

Download AVG Free here....

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download...virus/us/frt/0

EDIT:

Open up command prompt and type in this command:

ipconfig/release (it will erase your current ip)

ipconfig/renew (it will ask your router for a new ip)

 

is it just ones that are opening in new windows? if so, after you click the link hit stop then refresh. it doesn't fix it but it is a work around.
also in IE7 go to: tools, internet options. click the settings for "change how webpages are displayed in tabs" and then "restore defaults".
if that doesn't work tweak the settings in that same window.

 

Are you saying not run AVG and you edited your post after reading mine, or just do both?

I didn't have time this weekend to work on the computer. I tried creating a new profile hoping it would go off of my wife's internet settings but it had the same problem that I did. I'll try hopefully tonight.

 

DLing now. iprelease didn't work.

 

No, it's not only when I open new windows. Looks like download.com is affected. Can't dl AVG.

 

Download it from another PC, put it on a memory stick and install.....Or fdisk c.....

 

Download McAfee Stinger and run a scan.
have you tried Hijack This?

 

I was going to try Hijack this but my Google didn't work. Then my wife's profile stopped working too. Then I tried to restore but at least a week ago but then the earliest restore point was only 4 days ago. So then I went into the msconfig and started unchecking a bunch of programs on startup. I only left standing 4 programs that I know I use. After a slight delay yahoo seemed to work again. I was all over that bitch clicking through my fantasy league, clicking on scores that usually would nullify the temporary access, and all seemed to work fine. That means it appears (I will check when I go home) something at start up was screwing up my internet. Maybe it was spyware or a program that was installed that went corrupt.

 

if u can still get on acurazine... then there is no problem lol