Weird internet problems.

[LazLoW]

Hey guys. I'm at my sister's / brother-in-law's, so the computer with the problems doesn't match the specs in my profile. Here's the details:

Windows XP SP2
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+
2 Gig RAM
Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT
Sympatico High Speed Internet

As you can see, this computer is a beast, and a gaming beast at that. Now, my brother-in-law was having problems with his games, (some freezing problem, I keep thinking it's heat.) anyhow. He reformatted, and should be up to date on his drivers. Everything was going all good, until some day the internet just went ape-shiz. Right now he's lucky to get 13 kb/s on a 256k connection. I have NO idea what the problem could be. I'm thinking possibly motherboard/ethernet drivers, (he's running the Ethernet cord from the motherboad) using an Ethernet card, or reformatting again. John is ordering a new modem, and it should be here soon. Any ideas before I say screw it and reformat his computer again?

[johnwill]

You might look for malware that has taken over and is using part of the network bandwidth. If the machine was working fine, then started slowing down, I wouldn't be suspecting drivers as my top suspect.

[LazLoW]

I was thinking this possible too, but John has no anti-virus or scanning programs, and seeing how the internet is SCREWED, downloading even an 8meg little scanner would take about a day. I looked at all the current running processes and none of them look malicious. I searched most of the odd looking names, and they all came up as system32 files (alg.exe, oodag.exe, nvsvc32.exe, wuaulct.exe) etc. etc. Modem still hasn't come. My brother the computer whizz doesn't even know what it could be.

Thanks for any help. Laz.

[johnwill]

If he has no AV, the chance that he has malware is HUGE!

Please post a HijackThis 2.00.2 Log here.