Dial-Up Problem

[Polish Phil]

Recently I've been gettin an annoying problem with
dialup. I have used dialup in my house for years and it
has always been running smoothly, except an
occasional "freeze-up", where im not getting any bytes
received, only sending out a ton. Well recently, this
problem seems to have escalated tremendously. I use 2
ISP's and I seem to be gettin the same problem on both of
em, so the ISP's do not seem to be the cause. I
constantly keep getting that "freeze-up" where I am not
receiving any bytes for about a minute or so and internet
explorer and nothin else that uses a connection works. It
is a major nuisance as I play online games often and I
often go linkdead because of these strange "freeze-ups"
of my dial-up connection. Does anyone know a way to fix
this problem? Please reply or email thx.

 

[Guest]

looked for spyware yet. they like to call home and slow
things down
ad-aware lavasoftusa.com
spybot safer-networking.org
update both before scan

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Recently I've been gettin an annoying problem with
dialup. I have used dialup in my house for years and it
has always been running smoothly, except an
occasional "freeze-up", where im not getting any bytes
received, only sending out a ton. Well recently, this
problem seems to have escalated tremendously. I use 2
ISP's and I seem to be gettin the same problem on both of
em, so the ISP's do not seem to be the cause. I
constantly keep getting that "freeze-up" where I am not
receiving any bytes for about a minute or so and internet
explorer and nothin else that uses a connection works. It
is a major nuisance as I play online games often and I
often go linkdead because of these strange "freeze-ups"
of my dial-up connection. Does anyone know a way to fix
this problem? Please reply or email thx.

First eliminate any scumware.
See
Dealing with Unwanted Malware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Note that AdAware and SpyBot S & D will each catch some things the other
won't. Also, each needs to be updated with the program's update function
before every use, even when just downloaded. There's also a lot more to do
than just those two programs. CWShredder is also available here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/cwshredder.zip
**Post your HijackThis log to
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ or the Spyware forum at
http://forum.aumha.org/ for expert analysis, not here.**
Alternative download pages for Ad-Aware, Spybot, HijackThis and CWShredder
may be found on this page:
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm.

If nothing there helps, please post back to this thread.

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