Modem Problems?

I keep getting disconnected after a few minutes of being on the internet. It
is preceeded by a distorted sound in my PC.
On top of that my computer runs in the background for quite a while after
turning it on, eating up 'a lot' of MB's, as a matter of fact, nearly half
of my 2 GB drive, so that I am afraid of it being full in no time.

What might be causing such disturbance?
And Is there a way to repair this, or do I have to format?

At one time my PC warned me that my Windows OS might become unstable. Are
these the signs of it?

Please, help.

Harry.

webster72n
Mon Apr 12 22:17:32 CDT 2004


Thanks for the reply, Ananymous.
I don't think it was a virus, because my system was squeaky clean. I used
Adaware, Spybot and Spyblaster
toutinely. But, whatever the cause may have been, I was forced to go ahead,
format the drive and reinstall Windows ME, without enough time to back up
anything.
That's too bad, but everything works fine again now.
I'll just have to regather all necessary information.
Such is life, I guess.





"Anonymous Sender" <anonymous@remailer.metacolo.com> wrote in message
news:14bf8a8ef3d162e8c33b419290e071f6@remailer.metacolo.com...
> >I keep getting disconnected after a few minutes of being on the internet.
> >It is preceeded by a distorted sound in my PC.
>
> Sounds like a program that dials a number, could be an expensive
> by-the-minute number.
>
> You could, when you hear that sound pick up the phone, you might hear
> it actually dialing.
>
> That is if you are on a dialup connection.
>
> >On top of that my computer runs in the background for quite a while after
> >turning it on, eating up 'a lot' of MB's, as a matter of fact, nearly
> >half of my 2 GB drive, so that I am afraid of it being full in no time.
>
> >What might be causing such disturbance?
>
> Mabe a virus that fills up your HD, some actually do that.
>
> >And Is there a way to repair this, or do I have to format?
>
> If you did a virus scan you likely would find something, but you can
> always reformat your hard drive and start from scratch.
>
> >At one time my PC warned me that my Windows OS might become unstable. Are
> >these the signs of it?
>
> There are viruses that keep filling up your hard drive, I assume
> that could take all your resources.
>
> >Please, help.
>
> Reformating is fairly easy.
>
> First find out if you have windowsme on cdrom, check to see if it is a
> 'restore disk(s)' that came with your computer or if you have the
> official windowsme on cdrom.
>
> You can reformat and restore windows less than an hour, if you want to do

> that and want help. It will destroy all the data on hte hd so you would
> have to copy anything you might wan't to keep.
>
>

webster72n
Tue Apr 13 18:13:08 CDT 2004

Thank you, Anonymous, for your reply.
To my despair I had to format drive C and reinstall Windows ME. Things got
so bad, leaving me not even time for creation of back-ups.
Spyware could not have been the problem, because I frequently use either one
of Ad-aware, Spybot or Spywareblaster. Besides that I have SystemCleaner
installed and in use.
Now things work smoothly again in Wind.ME-Land.
Hope it stays that way.

Harry.



"Anonymous Sender" <anonymous@remailer.metacolo.com> wrote in message
news:14bf8a8ef3d162e8c33b419290e071f6@remailer.metacolo.com...
> >I keep getting disconnected after a few minutes of being on the internet.
> >It is preceeded by a distorted sound in my PC.
>
> Sounds like a program that dials a number, could be an expensive
> by-the-minute number.
>
> You could, when you hear that sound pick up the phone, you might hear
> it actually dialing.
>
> That is if you are on a dialup connection.
>
> >On top of that my computer runs in the background for quite a while after
> >turning it on, eating up 'a lot' of MB's, as a matter of fact, nearly
> >half of my 2 GB drive, so that I am afraid of it being full in no time.
>
> >What might be causing such disturbance?
>
> Mabe a virus that fills up your HD, some actually do that.
>
> >And Is there a way to repair this, or do I have to format?
>
> If you did a virus scan you likely would find something, but you can
> always reformat your hard drive and start from scratch.
>
> >At one time my PC warned me that my Windows OS might become unstable. Are
> >these the signs of it?
>
> There are viruses that keep filling up your hard drive, I assume
> that could take all your resources.
>
> >Please, help.
>
> Reformating is fairly easy.
>
> First find out if you have windowsme on cdrom, check to see if it is a
> 'restore disk(s)' that came with your computer or if you have the
> official windowsme on cdrom.
>
> You can reformat and restore windows less than an hour, if you want to do
> that and want help. It will destroy all the data on hte hd so you would
> have to copy anything you might wan't to keep.
>
>