Experts,
I originally posted this problem over in the Networks forum but was adviced to come here and see if you could help me out.
My situation is that I have one dual boot computer with one Windows instance that is causing my internet access to be dropped for my entire network. What's even more weird is that my WIFI is unaffected.
On the dual boot machine I am running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (SP1) for both instances, one is for "work" and the other is for "gaming" (I like to keep them apart to allow for performance optimization in the latter).
After having upgraded the network card driver end even replaced the VDSL modem to no avail I came over to these forums to get some advice.
As for the possibility of malware:
The "gaming" instance (which is the one causing the problem) I am running ESET Smart Security 5. I am using it's firewall instead of the stock (Windows) one.
Before posting this I also checked out your advice in this post.
When I tried to run the GMER scan I did get a warning about rootkit activity and there's one line there (the top one) that looks suspiscious to me, as I don't know what it is. Unfortunately I couldn't follow the rest of your advice as the GMER UI has most of the checkboxes disabled (please see attached image).
What can I do to figure out whether my problem is caused by malware? The one thing I could think of was to set the ESET firewall into "interactive" mode to see if there's any process that is trying to call home. So far I've seen nothing but as the problem arise aproximately once or twice per hour I'll keep it that way for a few days. But maybe that's just a stupid idea?
I originally posted this problem over in the Networks forum but was adviced to come here and see if you could help me out.
My situation is that I have one dual boot computer with one Windows instance that is causing my internet access to be dropped for my entire network. What's even more weird is that my WIFI is unaffected.
On the dual boot machine I am running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (SP1) for both instances, one is for "work" and the other is for "gaming" (I like to keep them apart to allow for performance optimization in the latter).
After having upgraded the network card driver end even replaced the VDSL modem to no avail I came over to these forums to get some advice.
As for the possibility of malware:
The "gaming" instance (which is the one causing the problem) I am running ESET Smart Security 5. I am using it's firewall instead of the stock (Windows) one.
Before posting this I also checked out your advice in this post.
When I tried to run the GMER scan I did get a warning about rootkit activity and there's one line there (the top one) that looks suspiscious to me, as I don't know what it is. Unfortunately I couldn't follow the rest of your advice as the GMER UI has most of the checkboxes disabled (please see attached image).
What can I do to figure out whether my problem is caused by malware? The one thing I could think of was to set the ESET firewall into "interactive" mode to see if there's any process that is trying to call home. So far I've seen nothing but as the problem arise aproximately once or twice per hour I'll keep it that way for a few days. But maybe that's just a stupid idea?