Hyena Posted July 12, 2003 I'm not able to connect to the internet at home and have been unable for over a week. I'm typing this at a friend's house. To put it simply, I was on the phone with the ISP tech support for over a half-hour and in the end he told me that he's detecting my computer at his end but I'm not receiving any signals. So the best guess on their part is that I have some sort of virus software installed that is filtering out everything, that I may have uninstalled but that still has pieces remaining. They're suggesting taking it back to the people who made it and having them do a thorough search. A theory I came up with is that the cord between the cable modem and cpu might be damaged, to the point that it can send but can't receive. By the looks of it, the "receive" light isn't even turning on when I try to get a signal. I'm thinking a replacement cord might help, but if it doesn't it means wasting money on something that never had a problem. Needless to say, this really really sucks. There's talk about cancelling the subscription for a couple of months since we can't connect anyway. I may be without internet at home for a long time. Unfortunately, this also means the projects I'm working on are suffering because I can't get in contact with my team members and for those nearing completion, I can't upload or send my work to others. So, in short, I'm not dead. I'm alive and very much irritated. 0 Share this post Link to post
zark Posted July 12, 2003 Heh, I was wondering where you had got to, you still need to make a sample for me :P In all seriousness, I hope you can get back online soon. 0 Share this post Link to post
DooMBoy Posted July 12, 2003 Ugh, hate it when that sort of thing happens. Good to see you're still alive however. 0 Share this post Link to post
boris Posted July 12, 2003 So you consider not being online for a couple months, just because you're afraid you maybe uselessly spend some money on a new cord? If it might be the remains of a virus, why don't you simply reinstall Windows? 0 Share this post Link to post
Tobester Posted July 12, 2003 ok normally I'd say "Fuck you faggot, cause no one gives a flying fuck about you you canardian trout" but I care. no I'm not going fag. I made some music for zarcyb and until hyena makes that sample its gonna star unreleased god damn buttsauce 0 Share this post Link to post
Use Posted July 12, 2003 Hyena said:So the best guess on their part is that I have some sort of virus software installed that is filtering out everything, that I may have uninstalled but that still has pieces remaining. They're suggesting taking it back to the people who made it and having them do a thorough search. Possible, you can see exactly what sites are being filtered by windows by searching for a file called 'hosts'. It has no extension. You can open it with notepad. Sometimes spyware or filesharing software will log ips in here and prevent windows from connecting to them. it should look like this: # localhost: Needs to stay like this to work 127.0.0.1 localhost Anything else is there should be deleted. Your cord theory is also not possible. If the cord was damaged in any way you would get nothing, and the cable provider would not be able to ping you. Do a couple searches with Adaware and updated virus software. Reinstalling windows is a last resort and is usualy unnecessary. 0 Share this post Link to post
pritch Posted July 12, 2003 Sorry to hear that hyena. Any mock2 orders to be given? Hope you get back soon. 0 Share this post Link to post
Ultraviolet Posted July 13, 2003 I was having Hyena withdrawals, but I'm fine now. 0 Share this post Link to post
mmnpsrsoskl Posted July 13, 2003 Damn. I'm also having problems with my ISP, but in a different way. Let's just say after 2.5 months of waiting for an ADSL service and nothing in return pisses me off. After paying them $500 for the modem and filters, also not getting them yet. 0 Share this post Link to post
Colusio Posted July 13, 2003 Don't use virusscans but preventing applications for going to the internet is more a thing from firewalls. On the site of sysinternals.com download the proces explorer. It will show all running processes, it's comparable to taskbar but it doesn't allow applications and their processes to hide. So if something is still active it should be show up somehere. You can kill everything but services. But those can be stopped in the servicemanager. Hope they did ask you to ping localhost, ip, google and thing like that. If it's their cable modem insists that it made weird noises before you lost connection. If you suspect the cable, test it if possible, but if you don't have two cables suppose they work. 0 Share this post Link to post
Grogglogobofink Posted July 15, 2003 oh, i just thought you were dead. 0 Share this post Link to post
Nanami Posted July 15, 2003 Hooray, Hyena's not dead. At least that explains why Mock2 hasn't been released yet. Well good luck Hyena, if you ever read this. 0 Share this post Link to post
Hyena Posted August 1, 2003 Update: I still am not dead. I took Use3d's advice, which although is very sage and appreciated, did not help. The hosts file was perfectly fine. Adaware (after finding it without the internet) managed to remove a great deal of useless stuff. However I'm still not able to use the internet at home. I'm running out of options. I really dread the concept of re-installing windows. Any further ideas are greatly appreciated. MUST . . . HAVE . . . INTERNET 0 Share this post Link to post
zark Posted August 2, 2003 Hyena said:Update: I still am not dead. I took Use3d's advice, which although is very sage and appreciated, did not help. The hosts file was perfectly fine. Adaware (after finding it without the internet) managed to remove a great deal of useless stuff. However I'm still not able to use the internet at home. I'm running out of options. I really dread the concept of re-installing windows. Any further ideas are greatly appreciated. MUST . . . HAVE . . . INTERNET Reinstalling windows isn't really that bad, is it? 0 Share this post Link to post
Hyena Posted August 2, 2003 zarcyb said:Reinstalling windows isn't really that bad, is it? It is when you consider that nearly every windows program has INI files in the system directory. So if I simply copy all of my old programs back from backup, those ones won't even run. That means nearly all of my programs will have to manually be re-installed one by one after windows. Some programs I don't use as often and even months later I might still be re-installing programs I just hadn't thought about before. Not to mention of course that I've lost the CDs to several programs, making re-installs very difficult. Also, many are ones I got off the internet, which means I would have to remember exactly where I got them in the first place to re-install them. It's just a huge time-consuming process. 0 Share this post Link to post
Rellik Posted August 2, 2003 This is why I keep CD's full of all the handy stuff I get off the net. It also makes it easier to put the same stuff on all my comps. I dunno, sounds like you might be screwed. Once Windows gets fucked it's fucked forever. On the upside it's a great time to clean up your drives and get all your stuff sorted. 0 Share this post Link to post
boris Posted August 2, 2003 Then simply don't reinstall and be offline for forever. 0 Share this post Link to post
mystic Posted August 2, 2003 Something like this happened to me recently. It was actually caused by a carpet tack being stuck through the phone cable so the downstairs phone and my upstairs connection were linked through the tack, that would help explain how the provider can detect your PC. 0 Share this post Link to post
Hyena Posted August 7, 2003 Well, I guess you could call this good news . . . I hooked up my old hard drive, (one I hadn't used for months) and I have the exact same connection problem. That means it's not my hard drive. It also means I can probably get the ISP to figure out how to fix it rather than try to apply my own limited knowledge (which hasn't been working) 0 Share this post Link to post
Grogglogobofink Posted August 7, 2003 good news, i guess. i released mooddoom without you btw, now i only need to get that silly ty guy to accept it. 0 Share this post Link to post