Re: dell drivers

did you do a FULL format prior to reinstalling windows?
if not, your nasty virus could still be present and could have infected
the boot sector.
you may have a rootkit.

doug wrote:
> Trying to debug a problem with a dell laptop. Has anyone heard of
> extra device drivers causing downloading problems? Recently I had to
> reinstall XP and I think I installed some unnecessary drivers so now
> I'm wondering it that's causing my problems. My problems are.. if I
> d/l binary files (using 2 or 3 different software), my system stops
> before the download. If I download text messages, as far as I can
> tell if I use forte agent version 2 no problem but if I use version 5,
> I get some messages that hang on the d/l. Prior to the reinstall I
> did not have this problem and most software I installed is the same as
> before. I've taken down my firewall, spyware software but no dice.
> I can ping the NSP and checked another system in the same location and
> it works fine (doesn't have the same software tho but is using xp).
> I've checked my services and that appears to be okay. Any ideas
> short of reinstalling the OS again? BTW, I don't want to restore my
> old OS due to a nasty virus so I'm trying to fix the problem.
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