Start Device Manager (start / run / devmgmt.msc) Find the network adapter, right-click, Properties. There's usually an Advanced tab and maybe a Power Management tab. If only the Advanced tab, look for a idle or power save property there.
Carl -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eve Golden Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DSL connection "not available" -- spyware result? Thanks, Carl. As you suggested in your post, I ran several updated anti-spies (Spysweeper, Counterspy, Ad-aware, Spybot, and Trojan Hunter) in safe mode twice each with reboots in between, and I removed all remnants of Virtumundo that I could find by hand from the registry, according to Symantec and other directions. I am pretty sure the computer is clean again. I'd like to know where that time-out setting lurks, because I suspect that it's been reset. I know I've encountered it time and again (no pun intended), but danged if I can locate it now. At 11:20 AM 2005-12-08, you wrote: >Remote possibility that your ethernet adapter has been set to turn itself >off when idle. > >There's also a chance, when you get one item of malware, you often get more >than one, and some hide from detection better than others. So there could >be something else still at work on your system. > >If you can run through the details of what "some doing" entailed, it would >help us determine whether the above is likely. > >Or just try all of the tools listed below. For best results: >1. Download the tools. >2. Install and update them. >3. Boot into safe mode. >4. Scan with the tools. > >While in safe mode also scan with your AV software. > >Tools: >http://snipurl.com/MSAntispy >http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html >http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ >http://www.ewido.net/en/ >http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredder_download.html > >Carl > >-----Original Message----- >From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Eve Golden >Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:01 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: DSL connection "not available" -- spyware result? > >Hi, all -- > >I got a trojan (Virtumundo) yesterday by stupidly clicking "cancel" on one >of those counterfeit dialog boxes instead of closing it from the taskbar. >It took some doing to get it off. Since then I've been steadily getting a >windows pop-up box that tells me every few minutes that my internet >connection is unavailable, and do I want to work offline or try again? > >Work Offline > >No connection to the Internet is currently available. >To view Internet content that has been saved on >your computer, click Work Offline. >Click TryAgain to attempt to connect. > > Work Offline Try Again >At the moment I am hardwired to a router by an ethernet cable. We have a >DSL connection. When I click "try again," the connection always works. >Nothing else on my system has changed. Ken is wired to the same connection, >and he isn't having any problems. So I think that the trojan, or the >removal of it, may have reset whatever it is that times a connection out >periodically. I've googled it, but I can't figure out where among all the >connection and networking dialogs the setting is (for Win XP pro). Can >someone tell me, or give me some other idea about what the problem might be? > >Thanks to all. > >-- Eve -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
