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re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes
Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 11:05 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by HJam72
(43 messages posted)
I was having a problem very similar to this, except that I use a STAND ALONE PC with
cable modem. I was losing my connection every 5 or 10 minutes and could only get
it back by not attempting to run any browser or update anything for at least five
minutes. It felt very much like a virus, so I scanned with AVG free and found nothing.
I ran Spybot, Ad-Aware, etc., etc. and found nothing. I say that because, after
all of that, I installed my old Norton AntiVirus that I haven't used in several
months and it found A KEYLOGGER NAMED Spyware.ABCKeylogger. The actually file was
named JPG.Utils.dll and was in the System 32 folder. Maybe that will help some of
you to check that folder for it. I don't exactly why it was cutting off my connection,
unless maybe the router firewall was blocking it out along with everything else???
Anyway, since deleting it I've had a constant good connection for about 4 hrs. now.
On Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 7:14 am, David wrote:
>Anthony,
>I had a bit of luck last night. I found some posts out on the Dell discussion board
>and they had a possible fix. I tried it and after 15 hours of use I have had NO
dropped
>connections. I found a person that posted a situation almost exactly the same as
>mine and then one of the senior posters put out this as a solution:
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> "Go to your Network connection, Properties, Authentication tab and uncheck IEEE
>authentication. Sometimes this gets checked when you update. Nothing should be checked
>on that tab."
>
>I tried the very simple solution and it seems to have solved the problem in my situation.
>You might want to give it a try and see what happens. It had no other ill effects
>on working with the network with this Dell Desktop machine. Now I have to admit
>my laptop has this checkbox checked and has never dropped a connection, go figure.
>
>Good Luck and hope this helps you also.
>
>David
>
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