|
connection issues on vista machine
I currently can not acess firefox, microtrend housecall, google chrome, skype, messenger, I can not download any software. I have reset my TCP/IP settings. I rean a scan and retrieved the CBS.log file...after fighting with Vista and realizing that inherancies need to me added at the C: level to own the systems rights. I have tried all kinds of things. Everything I can think of. So far my emails work in IE and I can acess web pages. I can even chat on facebook and everything. I am soooo frustrated. It was suggested my host file was corrupt but the report looked fine and then it was suggested I have the conflickr worm. I ran bitdefender....or at least think that I did, but there always seams to be errors with anything I am trying to connect to that is app related and requires an internet connection. I have googled and googled and googled to try to find anything that reads similar to my problem and have not had much luck. Any ideas other than smashing the system or a total reformat????=)
[ ]
Want to answer more questions in the Technology category?
Maybe give some free advice about: Computers?
Hi there,
Welcome to happy happy vista land. ;-)
It would be helpful to knwo what error messages you are getting when you try to launch the apps that will not run. Without that, let me speculate a bit.
If you want to rule out rootkits, virii and hardcore system hijacking spyware then you should pull the drive from the system and and install it on a second system. Scan it with a full battery of tools and see how you come out.
If you would like to try, you can download AVG or Avast anti-virus on another machine and either place it on a flash drive or burn it to a CD and then attempt to install on the system.
Good luck with that, and if you can provide more detail I would be interested.
]
More Questions: |