Internet is mostly not working...

Buddhism101 said:

Unless I'm missing something... Yes? I've run my computer like this for about 4 years now? No issues really. (4 years ago my old computer had this same problem) On the reformatted one, certainly no firewalls or anything, but no ports open for it.

Work offline is not on.

Well, I asked because I suspected a trojan on your machine.

Now that I know you have no protection what so ever on the computers,
I am sure it must be a lot more than just one trojan.

Sad thing is you will never know, because there is no application on your machine that would tell you, if you are infected.

Even sadder is that your machine might be infecting other machines as we speak.

I'm sorry but I'm not going to help you with this.

I believe people first have to take their own responsibilities before they go looking for help.

Good luck

You could also run an 'elevated command prompt', type cmd then right-click & 'run as admin', next type in sfc /scannow, this will check your system file integrity & overwrite any files that do not match the system default.

Hope it's sorted soon for you

squonksc said:

Well, I asked because I suspected a trojan on your machine.

Now that I know you have no protection what so ever on the computers,
I am sure it must be a lot more than just one trojan.

Sad thing is you will never know, because there is no application on your machine that would tell you, if you are infected.

Even sadder is that your machine might be infecting other machines as we speak.

I'm sorry but I'm not going to help you with this.

I believe people first have to take their own responsibilities before they go looking for help.

Good luck

If a user is 'Computer Savvy' then they will know how to go about using the internet safely without needing protection. So many people have AV protection that it's now deemed 'silly' not to have any, which is not 100% true.

I had Anti-Virus programs before, and all they did was find spyware and viruses that they "removed". I took it off and haven't had any issues for years. It's my opinion that Viruses and spyware are made and placed by the very companies that make anti-virus software so they can stay in business. Obviously there's going to be more, but I'm pretty careful about what I download. Wouldn't a reformat take care of this anyways? Since that's what I just did... And it's not like I opened all of my ports. I only open the ones I need.

It could be that access to the router from that computer has been altered. A re-install will possibly change the IPv4 number which you may have specifically set up on the router to allow external access to the net.

You will need to type 'ipconfig' into command prompt and check your router webpage/setup page also.

Buddhism101 said:

I had Anti-Virus programs before, and all they did was find spyware and viruses that they "removed". I took it off and haven't had any issues for years. It's my opinion that Viruses and spyware are made and placed by the very companies that make anti-virus software so they can stay in business. Obviously there's going to be more, but I'm pretty careful about what I download. Wouldn't a reformat take care of this anyways? Since that's what I just did... And it's not like I opened all of my ports. I only open the ones I need.

No offense Buddhism101, but people with the same opinion as you have, are the reason spam, trojans and viruses are so widely spread.

How can you say you are carefull what you download? How would you know if there's a trojan in it?

Saying the antivirus corporations are behind it, is like saying the police and FBI are behind crime, to save their jobs.

And to Atomic Shark:
A true computer savvy knows about what's out there, and also knows you can not have your firewalls turned off.

I think turning off a firewall means the user is not savvy enough to setup his firewall properly, and instead of teaching himself how to operate it, he shuts it off.

I suggest doing some reading on the subject.

Greetz

Perhaps I am the reason behind all of the world's problems. Now I'll politely ask you to leave and ask that someone else help me, since you're not answering any of my questions anymore - leading to my problem solving. If it so happens that the problem is a virus or trojan, then I may consider a firewall to be an option. At this point, however, I doubt it because you still have not given me any data or reasons to support this fact. You simply asked if I had it, I said no, and you told me you refused to help me. Looking for more help, thanks.

Buddhism101 said:

Perhaps I am the reason behind all of the world's problems. Now I'll politely ask you to leave and ask that someone else help me, since you're not answering any of my questions anymore - leading to my problem solving. If it so happens that the problem is a virus or trojan, then I may consider a firewall to be an option. At this point, however, I doubt it because you still have not given me any data or reasons to support this fact. You simply asked if I had it, I said no, and you told me you refused to help me. Looking for more help, thanks.

Ok, fair enough.

good luck