[Cute]

Hi guys, I have a problem that's been stumping me for a few weeks now, so I figured that there's nothing to lose by asking here (as my isp is useless, suprise suprise)

So! About a month ago, I moved onto student accomodation. Everything was awesome. I got the internet connected (I have to use the schools shitty provider), and for a week, it was awesome. Fast speeds, low ping, the works.

After a period of time, my roomate and I found ourselves disconnecting. A lot. The net was essentially unusable for two weeks as we couldn't stay connected for more than a few minutes at a time. Eventually, I was told that the port in my room would be disconnected as my computer was causing this problem.

Strangely enough this seemed to be the problem. A week later they reconnected my connection and told me to use a laptop. Everything is fine again. But as soon as I plug my pc in, I get dc'd, and autobanned from the network until I call them and they reconnect me. Apparently my pc floods the network, but they don't know anything more.

So, any ideas what's going on here? I just wanna play sc2

[mGGDrGooSe]

Some form of spamming virus or something really wrong with the settings? Maybe try a format, as formatting is the answer to every non-hardware problem I have ever had.

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[positiv]

Have you tried booting in to safe mode?

You could also try this. Click the start menu, and find the "Run" option or type straight into the search box on the start menu, type in msconfig and press enter, then click the Startup tab and disable (un-tick) everything apart from the things you need. Do the same for the Services tab (if in doubt, leave it alone). Reboot your machine. Try connecting to the network again.

Make sure you aren't running any P2P software either.

Just so you know, the Startup tab in msconfig shows you a list of programs that load on boot and wait idle in the background - typically these are like IM clients, CD burning software, etc.

[rezyn8]

It sounds like a virus or trojan has dropped its payload into your pc and is using it as a zombie for DDoS attacks and similar.

Here are some programs to help clean your pc and remove any net nasties.

MalwareBytes > essential tool which will clean up everything, USE IT
AdAware > System scanner
AVG Free > Great AntiVirus Software