muppet rebecca

Hello I'm going to try and tell you as much as I can but I will warn you in advance it is father strange. Firstly elt em tell you it's windows xp sp3 and I have all the latest updates. Now it randomely started for no reason but windows firewall has started to block programns, itself and even windows on the off occasion. I have scanned it for malware, rootkits and viruses all of which came back negative. Even when the firewall is switched off it still blocks programns and comes up with the windows firewall blocking thingy majig. I've put all my programns in exceptions to no avail. It's not any certain programn although skype is a regular closely followed by safari. Any ides would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance.

Okies this is what it says (shame you can't just copy and past): IP Address ...... 86.18161.228 Is that what I'm meant to have looked for....and thanks the running as myself worked....Strange that it didn't work earlier seeing as I am set as administrator on the computer....

It's given me something now but I can't see any ip address and I can only see loads of computer techno text that I don't understand....

I'm sorry to say it doesn't come up with anything it just comes up with another documents and settings thing two spaces below.....Thanks anyways

I'm sorry Synapse.....it quickly flashes up with white text in a black box then disappears again.....Is there another way to get it up?

It's gone back to before where it's taking longer than it should to load up a page......It's took me 30 minutes alone to get this page up so I can post this....I don't know why it's being slower than dial-up....It's broadband not dial-up <.<......Anyways I did the firewall settings thing and it only came up once than it blocked the browser and skype.....Besides it always asks when it blocks something.......It's only windows firewall....I can't see it being the firewall......I've not changed anything for it to act up like it is doing..... I had to delete avira of the computer because it wouldn't scan or check for updates.....pc tools threafire hasn't came up with anything nor has ad-aware either..... It also wouldn't do the eset online scanner earlier....it came up with error 2002.... I'm really at a loss to why all of a sudden the internet has slowed down to the point that it can't open some pages up.....even getting google up is an achievement let alone use it...... One thing that I don't get is that I don't have any problems with using skype as far as the internet is concerned yet everything else keeps trying to make out the computer isn't connected every so often.... Help is very much needed and appreciated...Thankyou

Thankyou dalo that might of done the trick although I daresay the modem needs replacing....It's an old ntl:home one and the ethernet cable doesn't always come up on the lights even if it's plugged in....Always been like it but now it's harder to get it right so it works......

It can't be opera only based though because firefox keeps saying it's server is down and I have to click the try again button whereas, internet explorer just keeps coming up with there's is no internet connection and the diagnostic thing. I've done a last good known configuration settings thing and it seems to have gotten the internet back up again but it wont be permanent. I'm going to do an online scanner using eset because avira wont scan due to a module missing on it. If nothing works the only thing to do would be a re-format I'm guessing. Any more ideas?

I've done another system restore point and firefox and internet explorer are working however opera wont open and keeps coming up with a module 10 error....any ideas?

I've tried a system restore point and it hasn't worked.....Also I have windows firewall, spybot - SD resident and avira guard.....Everythings up to date and done a spybot search earlier...it only found 2 doubleclick things.....I could try a full system scan with malwarebyte's and avira before I go to bed....

I've already tried deleting all my cookies to no avail and I've also tried to disable my firewall but it wont disable. I'm really at a lose here. Earlier on it blocked opera and skype from working...my firewall did that is...Hope this helps

Okies here's the thing and I don't know why my computer these past couple of days has started doing this. Whenever I load up the computer and go on skype or msn or any instant messaging type service the internet works fine yet when ever I go on a browser I just get a white screen for like 10 minutes before a page loads up or it says the server isn't connected. Now I have broadband with modem connection and the longest it's took before to load a page up is 1 minute never 10 minutes. Another thing would be I have to keep refreshing an internet page to get it up or switch the modem on and off to get it up. Also when I go in network connections I have 3 that come up a 1394 connection, ethernet (which is the one I've got) and a realtek family connection. Any ideas?

Have you checked your firewall settings...It could be blocking the internet for you...When I do a re-format (re-installation of the whole OS) I have to turn my firewall off for a minute to get the internet working again...Another thing are you wireless with your internet...

thanks it worked a treat...

Okies here's the thing I have like a 6 year old step-brother who likes to play on-line games however the majority of on-line games need adobe shockwave player to work. Now did use to have it on the computer and it was running fine, now somehow it stops working and when you try to go on a game it tells you to download plug-in content....you go to do that to then get told that the file already exists on the computer and do you want to overwrite or run existing file....which ever one I choose it acts as if it's installing adobe then it says successfully completed...close the window and I have to do it all over again... This is the same with adobe air, flash player and acrobat reader....now I've tried un installing all of them to the point I've had to search through the registry manually and my folders to delete left overs....now it wont re-install any of the adobes and keeps telling me there already installed on the computer.... You think DAP (download accelerator plus) might be causing problems...I've never known it to cause problems before....Any help would be appreciated...thanks