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I am very sad to say that the things you told me to do on the Hijack this forum, whilst cleaning my PC, did not cure the problem, so, at your request I have moved it here. I have no idea if you will be able to think of anything else. After all I have lived with this problem for months, and it is not that bad to cope with, but obviously it can be a nuisance. I suppose the biggest worry was that it was in some way infected but we seem to have shown that it isn't.
Just in case you can think of anything else, here are a few observations which I may not already have made.
1. I am in UK and my ISP is NTL. This comes to my house by cable, and I then send it through a Netgear router which is designed for cable rather than DSL input. This router provides wired and wireless connections for PCs. I currently have 3 PCs connected by wires and 2 laptops wirelessly.
When this problem occurs it stops all email EXCEPT that from NTL itself, though right now (the problem exists at this moment of writing) even that is stopped (though I guess their email server may be down). I have 2 ntl email addreses and they still check OK. For a long time I assumed this was therefore an NTL problem until it transpired one day that the other PCs on the network were not similarly affected. Then I concluded it was a problem specific to my PC.
FTP to all servers that I have tried also stops working, though I admit I have not tried ftp to an NTL server, as I don't have any cause to use their free webspace and I am not sure of the details but I guess I could set this up so that I could try it next time it goes down (It has just come back up)
2. This does not happen at any particular time of day, though it seems to come around lunch time more than any other time. The latest occurrence just now was around 8.30 am
3. My PC is a SONY VAIO PCV-RX4 series with an INTEL Pentium 4 2.4Ghz processor and 1.25 Gb RAM. I know that SONY do have some strange little quirky security settings of their own about which I know nothing, but wonder if this might give you a line of enquiry?
4. As far as I am aware, this phenomenon didn't start coincidentally with the addition of any software or any change to the network structure etc., though I appreciate it could have done and I just didn't notice.
5. Sometimes when it happens it eliminates email (non-NTL), ftp, remote desktop connection and SSL sites, other times it only eliminates the email and ftp and the other 2 seem to carry on working.
6. Normal http:// browsing has never been affected.
7. I can still send email
8. (Not likely relevant) I run 3 monitors on this PC with desktop shared across them
Please let me know if there is anything else I can tell you that might help.
I am very sad to say that the things you told me to do on the Hijack this forum, whilst cleaning my PC, did not cure the problem, so, at your request I have moved it here. I have no idea if you will be able to think of anything else. After all I have lived with this problem for months, and it is not that bad to cope with, but obviously it can be a nuisance. I suppose the biggest worry was that it was in some way infected but we seem to have shown that it isn't.
Just in case you can think of anything else, here are a few observations which I may not already have made.
1. I am in UK and my ISP is NTL. This comes to my house by cable, and I then send it through a Netgear router which is designed for cable rather than DSL input. This router provides wired and wireless connections for PCs. I currently have 3 PCs connected by wires and 2 laptops wirelessly.
When this problem occurs it stops all email EXCEPT that from NTL itself, though right now (the problem exists at this moment of writing) even that is stopped (though I guess their email server may be down). I have 2 ntl email addreses and they still check OK. For a long time I assumed this was therefore an NTL problem until it transpired one day that the other PCs on the network were not similarly affected. Then I concluded it was a problem specific to my PC.
FTP to all servers that I have tried also stops working, though I admit I have not tried ftp to an NTL server, as I don't have any cause to use their free webspace and I am not sure of the details but I guess I could set this up so that I could try it next time it goes down (It has just come back up)
2. This does not happen at any particular time of day, though it seems to come around lunch time more than any other time. The latest occurrence just now was around 8.30 am
3. My PC is a SONY VAIO PCV-RX4 series with an INTEL Pentium 4 2.4Ghz processor and 1.25 Gb RAM. I know that SONY do have some strange little quirky security settings of their own about which I know nothing, but wonder if this might give you a line of enquiry?
4. As far as I am aware, this phenomenon didn't start coincidentally with the addition of any software or any change to the network structure etc., though I appreciate it could have done and I just didn't notice.
5. Sometimes when it happens it eliminates email (non-NTL), ftp, remote desktop connection and SSL sites, other times it only eliminates the email and ftp and the other 2 seem to carry on working.
6. Normal http:// browsing has never been affected.
7. I can still send email
8. (Not likely relevant) I run 3 monitors on this PC with desktop shared across them
Please let me know if there is anything else I can tell you that might help.