Any ideas?

system · 2007-01-25T10:01:17.000Z

(posted in viruses area as well to maximize amounts of views by different people, not sure exactly where this fits in to this board)
After recently attempting to run a few Linux LiveCD’s (Ophcrack/Knoppix, just for fun), I noticed that for some reason, while running those, I could no longer connect to my internet connection (wired). After returning to Windows XP, I figured that would fix my connection problems, and low and behold, the problem still existed. It said that my network cable was unplugged, when it in fact wasn’t. The weird thing though, was when my Linksys WRT-54G wireless router’s “one push easy setup” button started blinking, without me pushing it. After that, I got a notice with WinPatrol that some host file was trying to be changed, but I denied that. After that, I then got the following message, via my firewall, which makes me quite suspicious to this being some sort of attack perhaps:

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f118/Mhogan35/Message.jpg

Any ideas? Help would be greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance for any help that I can get. I already have tried to directly connect my modem to my computer, but that didn’t help any. Thanks again for the help…
–Matt

system · 2007-01-25T11:01:57.000Z

outgoing netbios is not harmful, only incoming (from the internet side, not in local net).
You can completely deactivating netbios in the network settings on the device that goes directly to the internet. If you use the router you don’t need deactivating.

Avast does not block any network connections (outgoing).

DavidR · 2007-01-25T14:40:03.000Z

I have netbios completely blocked in my system however my system has no network and as has been said it is inbound that usually are up to no good.

The image you post only shows network IP address activity and nothing going out into the internet, what is on your network at 192.168.1.101 and 192.168.1.102 they are communicating.

Please don’t post multiple topics on the same problem, this is an active forum and you don’t need more viewing to get a response, it just duplicates effort for those who do respond.

system · 2007-01-25T21:11:23.000Z

Still having problems with my internet wired connection though… I even tested it by connecting to a laptop with the cable that normally runs to my computer, and all is well, but my computer still won’t show that it’s connected to the cable when I plug it in.
–Matt

system · 2007-01-26T21:16:31.000Z

It’s starting to look like I’m going to have to take in my computer to a tech or something, since this issue is still not resolved, lol…
–Matt

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