Hey guys,

I received a phone call from a distressed friend today. He told me that his computer is very slow and everytime he opens IE a crap load of pop ups come up. He also told me that he had a ton of those notorious search bars on IE. I told him that he has a bad case of spyware/adware. Probably a bunch of trojans and virii as well. I told him that I would come over and download some good programs. He told me don't bother because his computer is so badly infected that his computer just crashes. So I said I will just put them on a disk at my house and pop the disk in, and that's exactly what I did.

I put spybot, ad aware, CWshredder, avast!, and spyware blaster on the disc. Once I was at his house, I unplugged his internet connection because their was just to many popups. I installed spybot and ad ware and ran CWshredder. CWshredder found a couple things. I ran spybot normally but it couldn't do anything without crashing the computer. So I put it in safe mode and ran it. It found a ton of things. I then restarted to normal mode and it cleaned what it couldn't in safe mode. I also ran ad aware. That too found a lot of things. My friend and I both found that the computer was running much smoother now. So I connected the cable back in the computer and was going to update the programs and run them one last time. Both programs said that there was no updates. I thought that was very strange so I decided to open IE and no website came up. I tried ping www.google.com in the command prompt, still nothing.

They have a laptop that shares the connection wirelessly with the desktop and the laptop has no trouble at all connecting to the internet.

What could be wrong? The computer is running much better but it can't connect to the internet!
Please help me... Thanks in advance.

The Duck