He had a computer given to him.
It's a 1.8 P4, 256 megs of RAM, NVidia GeForce3 TI200, XP Home.
It's made by a company I never heard of, Medion.
He's been using it for about 2 months with no virus protection at all, and he looks at a lot of porn. Well, all of a sudden he calls me and says he can't connect to the internet, he has cable. I told him to call his ISP and tell them... His ISP says nothing is wrong on their end and the modem is fine. Every time you try to go to a site you'll get redirected to marsfind.com, but even that doesn't come up because the URL is huge, but it always starts with marsfind.com. I took over Spybot, Ad-aware, and Spywareblaster. That cleaned up about a million fucking things. Then I went to install NortonSytemWorks2004 and an error comes up during the installation and it just stops. I tried to install it at least 5 times. It's not a legit copy, but I've installed it on 6 different PC's, and I brought that disc home, and reinstalled it on my PC just to make sure there was nothing wrong with it. another weird thing is the task manager won't open. Actually it will once for about a second then it closes on it's own. I was just gonna throw in the original installation disc and start him over from scratch, but he or the guy that gave it to him doesn't have it.
Another thing, after I installed Spybot I tried to get updates for it, and nothing would happen. I couldn't get updates for that or Ad-aware.
I'm guessing that maybe he has a virus, but I'm not exactly sure. If there's anything you can think of for me to try before I wipe his HD clean and set him up with my shit let me know. If I have to go that route I'd like to know if there's a program that'll tell me what brand/model the MOBO is... I already opened the case and I can't find a model or anything like that on the MOBO. Thanks in advance.
