At 11:58pm yesterday evening, my internet connection appears to have gone out. I have been unable to connect to many sites (I'd say 80% time out, tried like 20 random .net/.com/.org sites in order to help myself get an idea of what's going on), yet others work fine (google for example, and Techspot). Attempting to troubleshoot this for myself I shut off the machine for 5+ minutes and unplugged everything (to reset the NIC as far as I know). Plugged everything back in, and the same deal is recurring.
I can only assume this is because:
A) My ISP is performing maintenance (no one is at the public utility building as it never has had any problems after the winter)
B) The connections to the backbone are performing maintenance or blocking ALL packets (have previously gone through a lengthy process to get the ISP -> enterprise -> ugh -> backbone to get the ugh guy to let through packets since no users actually pays them so they packet shape).
C) There is no C.
D) I am infected with malware (malwarebytes and DDS are sites unable to be connected to, so I'm unable to run the scans. GMER works but it hasn't been updated lately, which is one of the symptoms 'causing the problem. As per my last thread on these forums that showed no PC health issues, I assume the identity theft is also a symptom of some middle man).
I'm requesting Bobbye because he is highly intelligent, highly experienced, but I'd love any help I can get to remedy this. I basically have no where else to go, as these problems appear to be localized (as others can connect to any server they want) however for some reason I'm denied access. Even removing the router from play I'm met with the same symptoms, perhaps someone on my WAN fiber network has exceeded our alotted bandwidth 'causing all sites which use > x% of bandwidth to be constantly denied until the next pay period from those contracted with AT&T? (Again these mysterious netblocks which exist only to make money by transferring or allowing data to pass may now be denying any access, or I don't understand my computer).
Techspot works and functions correctly (even through the slow loading of simple web pages instead of time outs) because it has an addressable address due to being on top of the technology forefront without DNS or NIC issues. Help me please solve this malware! I can only see at the moment the white text screen, with the bold categories and blue sublinks due to the bandwidth problems.
I can only assume this is because:
A) My ISP is performing maintenance (no one is at the public utility building as it never has had any problems after the winter)
B) The connections to the backbone are performing maintenance or blocking ALL packets (have previously gone through a lengthy process to get the ISP -> enterprise -> ugh -> backbone to get the ugh guy to let through packets since no users actually pays them so they packet shape).
C) There is no C.
D) I am infected with malware (malwarebytes and DDS are sites unable to be connected to, so I'm unable to run the scans. GMER works but it hasn't been updated lately, which is one of the symptoms 'causing the problem. As per my last thread on these forums that showed no PC health issues, I assume the identity theft is also a symptom of some middle man).
I'm requesting Bobbye because he is highly intelligent, highly experienced, but I'd love any help I can get to remedy this. I basically have no where else to go, as these problems appear to be localized (as others can connect to any server they want) however for some reason I'm denied access. Even removing the router from play I'm met with the same symptoms, perhaps someone on my WAN fiber network has exceeded our alotted bandwidth 'causing all sites which use > x% of bandwidth to be constantly denied until the next pay period from those contracted with AT&T? (Again these mysterious netblocks which exist only to make money by transferring or allowing data to pass may now be denying any access, or I don't understand my computer).
Techspot works and functions correctly (even through the slow loading of simple web pages instead of time outs) because it has an addressable address due to being on top of the technology forefront without DNS or NIC issues. Help me please solve this malware! I can only see at the moment the white text screen, with the bold categories and blue sublinks due to the bandwidth problems.
