Tks Nicholas. E.
>________________________________ > From: Nicholas Geti <ng...@optonline.net> >To: ProFox Email List <profox@leafe.com> >Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 1:39 AM >Subject: Re: [NF] Wireless Router problem/life time > >MS Security Essentials is not that good. The following programs are much >better. If you are running Windows XP, do the following: > >combofix to look for root-kits. Be careful which web site you download from. >Some try to collect a fee. >http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/combofix/ > >Malwarebytes to look for spyware and some viruses >http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/ > >Spybot to look for spyware. This often finds things missed by Malwarebytes >http://www.safer-networking.org/dl/ > >Install trial version of Avast. If it finds stuff, then I recommend that you >buy the Internet Security version. >http://www.avast.com/en-us/internet-security > >Also it sounds like you may have a weak signal that is dropping the >connection. You could reinstall the router BIOS. FWIW I just ran into a >situation where one of my clients has the same problem. Upgrading the router >BIOS did not work. My next test will be to swap out the router to isolate >the problem. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Lew Schwartz" <lew1...@gmail.com> >To: "ProFox Email List" <profox@leafe.com> >Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 12:13 PM >Subject: Re: [NF] Wireless Router problem/life time > > >> Daily scan via MS Security Essentials finds nothing. >> >> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Nicholas Geti <ng...@optonline.net> >> wrote: >>> Probably viruses are intercepting your IP addresses. >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Lew Schwartz" <lew1...@gmail.com> >>> To: "ProFox Email List" <profox@leafe.com> >>> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 12:10 PM >>> Subject: [NF] Wireless Router problem/life time >>> >>> >>>> Any ideas about the following or is the router just old? >>>> >>>> As of this am nothing seems to stay connected to my home's Linksys >>>> wireless router. I've rebooted the router itself and, after reboots >>>> &/or repair connection cycles of my 2 main pc's what happens is that >>>> the machines (which initially report valid ip's) go offline. To make >>>> matters weirder, the offline machines report ip's that look like >>>> they're from another network altogether. This makes no sense to me; I >>>> thought that an address that a device gets through dhcp stays locked >>>> in until you reboot or do a manual repair or disconnect/reconnect. >>>> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1345030852.13095.yahoomail...@web140604.mail.bf1.yahoo.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
