Weird Networking Problem(?)

wabbitslayer

wabbitslayer

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Oldest son's PC wouldn't let him update Steam, kept giving him an "error -130" code yesterday with all sorts of weird behavior. Ended up finally uninstalling everything, steam and games as well (the everything but the exe and the steamapps folder didn't work) Last night, it would finally let me login to my steam account (and his account would login to the steam website on his computer, and he could login to his account via client on my computer, and I could login to my account on his computer. But trying to use his account on his computer kept saying incorrect password :nuts:


This morning, I reset all group policy settings to default, rebooted and steam seems to be working fine. HOWEVER...this problem existed yesterday and it still does:

Firefox is set as default browser and works fine. IE will not load any pages, click on "diagnose connection" and nothing. I go to Internet Options to check the LAN proxy settings and I see this:

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I've never seen that before. What it is and how do I get rid of it? His account is the admin account on that computer, it is no managed by anything else. What is it and how do I get rid of it, "take control back",if you will....???

(I am sure this is an example of why you are never supposed to use an admin account as the everyday account, live and learn)


My gut feeling says there is some sort of malware/rootkit/buggery going on Malwarebytes and Avast (in both regular and safe mode) say nothings wrong. Hijack This doesn't show anything my eyes note as improper.


Thoughts?
 
metroidfox said:
What happens when you click on 'settings'?

EDIT: all my computers are on admin accounts. No issues here.
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just pops up a help box that says "if your computer is a governemtn or large computer or blah blah blah....", in other words, someone/thing has fixed this so you can't adjust proxy settings. When I first started with it, the next window was all greyed out (if you clicked the LAN settings). Instead of "automatically detect proxy settings" being checked, it was "use proxy server" but the address field was blank. I was able to change it to auto detect by rebooting into safe mode, but nothing else changed.

On one hand, it doesn't matter, he can use is PC for what he wants. OTOH, it's driving me nuts b/c I can't figure it out, and I'm wondering if there is some sort of malware infestation, which is really driving me nuts. :mad:
 
Dr. Zhivago said:
Sounds like malware. Run MBAM and SuperAntiSpyware for starters.

Post back after you've done that.
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I guess my original post was not clear. Malwarebytes even in safe mode detects nothing. I didn't post this above but I also ran SuperAntispyware and nothing. Also ran Linux-based Bitdefender Rescue CD and nothing.

I agree, seems like malware, but nothing I've tried has found it. Somone on another forum suggested RogueKiller, which I am unfamilair with...but can't try it until this evening.
 
Check out in regedit what the values are for items in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
 
I'd be tempted to create another user account and see if it works ok, if not take a gander in your gpedit.msc

Look Under Computer configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer > Internet Control Panel

check to see if anything has been disabled, if any thing is showing other than not configured try setting it default and see if it works

might be a bit of a complicated way to go about it, but I've seen these values get mysteriously changed, often by ISP cd's

total stab in the dark mind! :evil:
 
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