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i have windows xp system. running on a gateway lap top. at first i thought i had a virus or Trojan.

this is what i have done. i was running a scan on the pc with avg and it froze. i have run avg, adaware, spybtsearch and destroy and all freeze when they get to the a particular picture file from ...

moving to hardware forum, thank you for your help

i tried uninsalling zoombrowser and still lock-up. i also tried recovery options and did the full factory restore and it froze on reformatting hard drive for 30min.. lucky for me i powered down and it did restart with no problems. so im starting to think it is a bad spot on my hard drive or corrupt ...

it is simply a picture file from 2005 of my kids.

as far as removing the hard drive i would have to find someone to help me with that. it is a gateway laptop and i have never taken one apart and know little about how to do it.

i did run avast on all other files but that one and it came up with ...

i gave that a try today. disabled restore and used moveonboot. same thing, freeze on start up. i had to start from working configuration. any other suggestions?

YARDofSTUFF, thanks for the reply. i tried the program you suggested and it allowed my to move the file to to be deleted at next boot. i then tried to restart and it froze again on restart. i tried safe mode and it froze booting up safe mode. i had to reboot to a previous working configuration and i ...

i have windows xp system. i have run avg, adaware,spybtsearch and destroy and all freeze when they get to the infected file. i also have run chkdsk and it freezes at 72%. I narrowed it down to a picture file but i cant delet, open, or move it. this is my first time running hijack this and these are ...

thanks Croc, i followed your link and finally got all catalog entriers cleaned out. i had to use the winsock2 fix posted at that site but as far as i can tell newdotnet is gone. man did i learn a lot. the only problem now is my connection speed is down to .064mps. should i go to the tweaks forum for ...

i down loaded imesh and some how picked up newdotnet. i did several searches for info on the topic but still need help.

i am having trouble loging on to net and when i do get on system is real slow. speed .435mps down from 1.693 befor.

i ran adaware 6.0, spybot search and destroy, and ...

tried all duplex settings here are the results from speakeasy.n
10 half: 403.4 down/ 225 up
10 full: 413.2 down/ 225 up
100 half: 226.1 down/ 240 up
100 full: 413.2 down/ 222 up

if i check my speeds at sg.speed test i get:
10 half didnt check
10 full: 1.693mbps down
100 half: 1.205mbps down
100full ...

i left my setting on 10 half and powered shut down and restarted.
new speed test at speakeasy.n was: 403.4 down/225 up

switched to 10 full shut down, restarted got
413.2 down/225 up at speakeasy.n
useing the speed test SG speed test on the home page i get 1.693mb
why such a big difference? i will ...

i have adelphia with a motorola modem running windows 98. i downloaded the vtcp386 and ndis updates. changed to 10 half mode. i also downloaded cablenut. my speed is at 390.6kb down and 226kb up. speed checked at speakeasy.

here is my resalts:
thank you in advance for any help.

TCP options string ...