ISP connection dropping out
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ISP connection dropping out
A few days ago my cable modem started "locking up". I'd get home from work and the connection would be showing a connected status. I would get errors from my browser no matter where I tried to go. A simple reboot and toggle of power to the modem would fix it, for a while. Then it would randomly lose the connection to the ISP every few hours. I checked the ISP site and no problems were reported. I checked my router's log and lo' and behold ---> I found about 2 dozen open connections to my son's computer on ports 1026-1028. This seemed peculiar to me. I made him logoff World of Warcraft and did a virus scan. 90 feckin' virus...trojanZ, etc....were found! I think I got them all off. Problem seemed to go away for a day. Last night it started again, kicked me off during a Teamspeak meeting for Interpol...sorry guys...I'm not finding anything to explain this issue. Could the viruses have been the problem before? I haven't called the ISP yet cause that's a huge pain in the arse dealing w/ those guys. Any advice?
Wipe and re-install, but that can be a pain. Since its your sons machine, he may also be putting them back on as fast as you take them off.
Or get a 2nd and 3rd antivirus opinion. Free online scans.
www.antivirus.com
www.pandasoftware.com
www.bitdefender.com
www.kaspersky.com
Or get a 2nd and 3rd antivirus opinion. Free online scans.
www.antivirus.com
www.pandasoftware.com
www.bitdefender.com
www.kaspersky.com
lol same here, cept it would be my brother, not sisterStarLord wrote:Pff, I'm the computer expert in my house, my father or my sister would be the one to get virus!Ash2Dust wrote:Since its your sons machine, he may also be putting them back on as fast as you take them off.
woke up this morning, put on my slippers, walked in the kitchen and died
I did come up with a sure-fire fix. Unplug my kid's computer from the router when our battles start! I am going to use this as leverage to get him to join =GC=....hehe....he's hopelessly addicted to WOW.
The multiple scanners seem like the right decision for now. I'll give it a week and then a re-install if no luck. Thanks guys.
The multiple scanners seem like the right decision for now. I'll give it a week and then a re-install if no luck. Thanks guys.