re: System freezes when I go online Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 11:38 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by richard (247 messages posted) did you turn on the xp firewall before connecting to the internet for the first time? if not you have the blaster or welchia worm unfortunately i have posted the answer too many times lately so you need to find the posts for yourself. On Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 9:26 pm, potsy wrote: >I'm running xp pro on my machine and have been for the last 12 months. All of a sudden >when I connect to the internet, the whole computer freezes up. Can't ctrl alt del, >all I can do is reboot. Sometimes I only get to the 'verifying username' window >before it locks up. I've only been able to stay on line for maybe 45 secs if I actually >make it through. Then it locks up. >I formatted the drive, it worked for a day, then it's doing the identical thing again. >Tested the modem on another machine ( this one now ) and no worries. Everything else >is working perfectly. >God i hope someone out there can help........... Written in response to: System freezes when I go online (Potsyburger: Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 9:26 pm) Responses to this message: re: System freezes when I go online (Potsyburger: Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 1:54 am) All messages in this thread [show all] System freezes when I go online (Potsyburger: Sat, Jan 17, 2004, 9:26 pm) re: System freezes when I go online (triplate: Sat, Jan 17, 2004, 9:37 pm) re: System freezes when I go online (richard: Sat, Jan 17, 2004, 11:38 pm) re: System freezes when I go online (Potsyburger: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 1:54 am) re: System freezes when I go online (MJB: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 6:27 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum