Cable Modem ProblemsFollow

Afternoon everyone,

My computer was recently just de-loused from 1400 spyware and a few viruses (curse you free **** site people!!!).

Anywho, after getting my computer back from the shop I have been unable to reconnect to the internet. All the connections are hooked-up correctly and I know my modem is working properly since I can play my online ps2 games.

A friend of mine hooked up a router to split the signal between my computer and ps2. This happened before I brought it into the shop. It worked fine before and i haven't tried to hoOk the router up again, preferring to run the cable directly to my modem and then to the computer.

When I try to add a new "network connection", the computer says one is already set up. I have rebooted, turned modem off for 1 min, etc... and nothing seems to restore the connection. When I unplug the connection from the pc, a little window shows up saying that a network connection has been seperated" or somthing like that.

Please help. I haven't been able to play eq for quite some time and the playstation game is just lame!!!!

adding a router causes xp to reset a bunch of settings. Nuke and rebuild your network profile, that should do the trick.

but since you are what i like to call an "at risk" computer user. You really need a router. Hardware firewalls are your friends