1. Thank you for that :P
2. Nothing found by any of those apps including Hijack This - I guess I'm going to live with this one connection for now until I have time to reinstall Windows...
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Andrew Hood
<ajhood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
staedtlerx wrote:
> AND last but not least! :
> Last night I did a Windows repair install, which I guess attempts to
> delete all system files and replace them with the ones on the CD. Took
> about an hour so it would seem that a lot of things were reinstalled.
> However, the connections are still not fixed. This leads me to believe
> there must be some third-party module that is corrupted (or malware)
> sticking around somewhere and getting in the way. Anyone know of any
> other debugging/tracing tools that might be used to track this sucker
> down? (I really don't want to have to completely reinstall - it's a real
> pain with all the custom drivers on these vaios!)
Answer 1. Don't use Windows.
Answer 2. Lavasoft's Ad-Aware, Safer Networking's Spybot, CCleaner. I
found Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware good at getting rid of really hard to
remove viruses/trojans/etc.
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