Interrupted connection

[JP]

Been having a bad time lately with connections being interrupted. Constantly
getting the message your connection was interrupted or address cannot be
found in firefox and ie. When I hit refresh the website will usually appear.
50 gig harddrive, 512 mg of ram. Have 2 spywares installed plus pc cillin.
Local service provider hasn't been much help to say the least. Any ideas.
Almost forgot outlook express has slowed down also.
JP

 

[housetrained]

run http://speedtest.net/ see what happens

 

[JP]

run http://speedtest.net/ see what happens
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Now I've just discovered another problem-the download gets about 1/2 way and stops before completion of the download!

 

[JP]

tried to install and run Uniblue and got a dialog box that says Microsoft.Net Framework 3.5 could not be installed setup cannot continue

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[Paul]

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If you have another computer, there are some scanning tools which run
outside of Windows.

For example, Kaspersky has a self-booting scanner CD.

http://dnl-eu10.kaspersky-labs.com/devbuilds/RescueDisk/

You'd need a second computer, with working download, to download the 100M+
file. The file format is ISO9660. You need a program which knows how to parse
and burn a CD, based on that file (not simply copy the file to the CD).
Nero would do that. Or Imgburn perhaps.

When that disc is used to boot the potentially infected computer, it will run
some version of Linux. It will also download an updated virus database. So the
operation of attempting that download, would tell you whether there is a hardware
problem of some sort. (Like a broken network card.) I presume the Kaspersky scanner,
will have a checksum or consistency check, on the downloads, and won't accept
corrupted downloads.

You could also boot a Linux LiveCD, to verify the computer works. You could
attempt downloads with that, and verify the MD5SUM of some large downloads,
to see whether downloading works without issue. Because that is usually a much
larger download (700MB perhaps), I'd save that one for later.

Paul