downloading from the internet

So I got a new computer yesterday. It came pre-installed with mcafee security center, or something, along with mcafee's firewall and virus scanner. Almost immediately, mcafee firewall mentioned that some program was trying to access the internet. I believe the exe file said something about ati command line, I'm fairly certain at least that "command" was part of the file name. Anyway, I told it no.

Then I tried connecting to the internet. I failed. I decided the firewall had something to do with that. I tried uninstalling mcafee, and couldn't, because it said a virus scanner was running. Ultimately, what I wound up doing was restarting in safe mode in order to completely uninstall it. After that, I was able to at least install things like trillian, skype, and winrar.

Today, I get home, turn on the computer, and try to read gmail. I get as far as logging in, then my inbox refuses to load. I seem to be permanently stuck at the loading screen. I sign onto trillian, I discover that my connection is terribly unstable, and I'm bouncing on and offline like crazy. I try to get to gamingforce; I get as far logging, and get stuck at the redirect screen. I continue trying to get to gmail through all of this. Eventually I succeed, the inbox loads, and I am able to access the particular email I wanted, ie. a yousendit link. I discover that in attempting to download the file through yousendit, that I can't.

What happens is the download window opens, I get maybe 100-200 kb. Then nothing changes after that. These are the symptoms.

I've turned off the windows firewall. I've gone into the properties for the wireless and set them to match the properties on THIS computer, which has successfully done all of the things that failed above. I'm not sure what do to do about this. Apparently Dell technical support won't cover this issue without me first paying 99 dollars for it.

I imagine that there is a common thread between all of these issues, as I can otherwise use google to search up sites and look at them. Does anyone have any ideas? Any help would be appreciated. Also, what other information might you need in order to resolve this issue? Thank you.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

They sent a piece of cardboard shaped like a disc on which was written something along the lines of "you don't need a disc for this computer, please use system restore if there are any problems"

However, the IT guys at work kind of like me because I pay their wages on time, and they offered to take a look at it tomorrow. Hopefully they can tell me what to do.

As it is now, I can't actually get anything on the computer, like AVG or a spyware program, because I can't actually download anything. I even went back to mcafee's website to try and reinstall their stuff, but it was a total failure, absolutely nothing happened when I clicked the download links.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Would this also occur because of a conflict error? Because that just happened today while I was playing a dvd. I looked away for a minute, and when I came back, it was like this. =( Should I still go through with a format/reinstall or is this now a hardware issue?



This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

anybody want to send me a copy of xp 2005 media? <.<;

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Ok, so a clean install to an old version of winxp home didn't work. I've noticed that when viewing the actual wireless connection, packets received is much higher than packets sent. In this case they stand around 22000 sent and 44000 received. What does it mean when packets sent is so much lower. That means I'm not talking to the internet right? What can I do to increase packets sent? Perhaps the problem is that my computer is not providing the appropriate responses to gmail and other places.

How ya doing, buddy?