IE7 and Firefox freeze

[sillyputty]

Both IE 7 and Firefox 3.0.10 freeze when I'm on the internet (DSL).
Computer runs fine when I'm offline. I tried reinstalling XP (it had
been a while), installed a new video card (ATI Radeon 3650), removed
sound card and enabled MB integrated audio, updated the wireless
networking card's (D-Link GWL-G510) driver, though it's an old card
and the latest driver I found find was dated 5/28/07. My next step is
to buy a new wireless networking card. Got any other ideas of what
could be causing the freezing?

Something else- I somehow got two Network Connections in Control
Panel. They both display the same info. I thought reinstalling XP
would get rid of one, but they both remained. Thanks.

 

[Conor]

Both IE 7 and Firefox 3.0.10 freeze when I'm on the internet (DSL).
Computer runs fine when I'm offline. I tried reinstalling XP (it had
been a while), installed a new video card (ATI Radeon 3650), removed
sound card and enabled MB integrated audio, updated the wireless
networking card's (D-Link GWL-G510) driver, though it's an old card
and the latest driver I found find was dated 5/28/07. My next step is
to buy a new wireless networking card. Got any other ideas of what
could be causing the freezing?

Something else- I somehow got two Network Connections in Control
Panel. They both display the same info. I thought reinstalling XP
would get rid of one, but they both remained. Thanks.

Maybe you've some malware installed. Downlan and run Malwarebytes
Antimalware.

 

[shegeek72]

Maybe you've some malware installed. Downlan and run Malwarebytes
Antimalware.

I ran spybot and it only found some tracking cookies- no malware. I'm
vigilant about not doing anything that would allow spyware/malware on
my system. Antimalware is subscription based; I'd rather stick to free
SW. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Jim]

I ran spybot and it only found some tracking cookies- no malware. I'm
vigilant about not doing anything that would allow spyware/malware on
my system. Antimalware is subscription based; I'd rather stick to free
SW. Thanks for the suggestion.

Not if you use the trial (free) version .

 

[Dave]

Both IE 7 and Firefox 3.0.10 freeze when I'm on the internet (DSL).
Computer runs fine when I'm offline. I tried reinstalling XP (it had
been a while), installed a new video card (ATI Radeon 3650), removed
sound card and enabled MB integrated audio, updated the wireless
networking card's (D-Link GWL-G510) driver, though it's an old card
and the latest driver I found find was dated 5/28/07. My next step is
to buy a new wireless networking card. Got any other ideas of what
could be causing the freezing?

Something else- I somehow got two Network Connections in Control
Panel. They both display the same info. I thought reinstalling XP
would get rid of one, but they both remained. Thanks.

I'd be shocked if you don't fix the problem by replacing the D-Link wireless
neetworking card. I'd suggest you try a Linksys brand USB adapter
ext. -Dave

 

[Conor]

I ran spybot and it only found some tracking cookies- no malware.

For the love of god...

I'm
vigilant about not doing anything that would allow spyware/malware on
my system.

Doesn't matter anymore. Plenty of legitimate sites are being infected
and if you use Windows/MSN/Live Messenger, you can get infected via
that.

Antimalware is subscription based; I'd rather stick to free
SW. Thanks for the suggestion.

There's a free trial.

By all means stick to free but everyone I know who is infected has been
using free AV software.

 

[Jim]

For the love of god...


Doesn't matter anymore. Plenty of legitimate sites are being infected
and if you use Windows/MSN/Live Messenger, you can get infected via
that.


There's a free trial.

By all means stick to free but everyone I know who is infected has been
using free AV software.

All my security programs are free ; no infections .

 

[Dave]

There's a free trial.

By all means stick to free but everyone I know who is infected has been
using free AV software.

The worst ****ed-up system I've seen as far as malware is concerned was a
system that was supposedly protected by a (fully updated!) and non-free
version of Norton Internet Security. (anti-virus and anti-spyware)

My nephew brought the system to me because he couldn't get it to connect to
the Internet at all using DSL. When it wouldn't connect to the Internet
through my cable modem either, I took it offline. Then I used my own
computer to download a couple of free AV programs and copied them to CD.
Used the CD to install the free AV programs (1 at a time) on my nephews
system. The first one I tried (AVG) found thousands of infected files of
dozens of different viruses and trojans. Note that this was BEFORE I
connected to the Internet to get the latest virus definitions. Meanwhile,
Norton was sitting in the system tray all fat dumb and happy and doing not a
damned thing about it.

So I left AVG installed, uninstalled Norton. Magically, the Internet
started working as soon as Norton was uninstalled. Later used avast! to
scan the system and found several more viruses.

Spent hours scanning that system with various freebie programs (spybot S &
D, adaware, various antivirus programs, online and off) before I was
reasonably certain that it was clean.

But with Norton installed, the whole ****ing hard drive was (pretty much)
just one big virus. -Dave

 

[shegeek72]

I'd be shocked if you don't fix the problem by replacing the D-Link wireless
neetworking card.  I'd suggest you try a Linksys brand USB adapter
ext.  -Dave

I tend to agree considering ipconfig doesn't work. I've also tracked
down the two Network Connections in my Control Panel to ncpa.cpl and
netshell.dll, both in the system32 directory.

 

[shegeek72]

For the love of god...

I don't think the big guy had much to do with spybot's results.

Doesn't matter anymore. Plenty of legitimate sites are being infected
and if you use Windows/MSN/Live Messenger, you can get infected via
that.

Well, I do use windows. Unfortunately, if I want to play games and
have the most software available I'm stuck with it. I don't use live
messenger or IE (though in IE8 they've seemed to really take a stab at
security, hopefully in response to Firefox's increasing popularity).

By all means stick to free but everyone I know who is infected has been
using free AV software.

Some folks don't regularly update their AV, nor run regular scans.