From: rr on
Nick L. Odeon wrote:
> Why did you post a dangerous link that someone might click on, HoopleHead?
> <rr(a)nospam.edu> wrote in message
> news:%23zV1nN0HLHA.1868(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> : If I got some weird virus from
>
>

Ok that was bad, I did not want it to seem like I was promoting the web
site.
From: rr on

Interesting.... That worked. Google Earth works too . but thats odd that
that will have an effect on Google Earth. Thanks for the help.





> Open Internet Options, Connections tab, click the "Lan Settings" button,
> deselect all.
>
> Also download, install, update and run Malwarebytes
> http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam/program/mbam-setup.exe
>
From: Airman Basic on
On 07/09/2010 3:47 AM, rr(a)nospam.edu wrote:
> If I got some weird virus from
> http://www.graceandbeauty.com/samples/gbSample1_sm7-5k.wmv which deleted
> my original network connection and created a new connection, which now
> prevents my yahoo messenger from seeing chat rooms and google earth from
> connecting to the authentication server. What changes would have been
> made. I could have sworn I saw the connection name change to "Connection
> 2". As I am on cable internet. Can I just create a new connection and
> delete the old one. I have disabled the odd file that was in msconfig
> and deleted he odd folder that the file was in and AVG and Ad-Aware have
> not detected any odd files.

Under Internet Options, click Connections, LAN Settings, deselect Proxy
Server.
From: Jose on
On Jul 9, 8:43 am, "Nick L. Odeon" <ni...(a)odeon.invalid> wrote:
> Why did you post a dangerous link that someone might click on, HoopleHead?<r...(a)nospam.edu> wrote in message
>
> news:%23zV1nN0HLHA.1868(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> : If I got some weird virus from

It is good learning/practice to get your system infected on purpose,
then you can learn how to fix it without "trying" things.

Bring on those infections, wont boots, BSODs and other oops and
malfunctions!

Malfunctioning computers tremble in my presence.