file sharing hlp needed

freddykruegerfreddykrueger
edited July 2004 in Science & Tech
hello..i am new to these forums and i am sorry if this is the wrong forum, anyway i just formated the c drive on my computer cause i had the dman sassar virus... and for some strange reason all my file sharing programs seem to crash a few minutes after i open them... the only one that almost works is winmx... but only if i make a secondary connection. i would really like to be able to make a primary connection.
i am running a cable modem on a fast computer... making a primary connection was never a problem before... any1 got any ideas on how to fix this problem?

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  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2004
    so your trying to do P2P file sharing stuff? Like kaaza etc... You have GOOD virus software running that has up to date virus defs?

    I bet you managed to "backup" your virus's before you formated your disk.

    tex
  • freddykruegerfreddykrueger
    edited July 2004
    yes i have nortan and a firewall.


    but i did not back up the virus... i backed nuthing up... and started from scratch. but the virus is not the point. the damn system is crashing all the time. that is the point.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    Furthermore, if you in fact do P2P and IM or IRC (anything that uses an IRQ base layer fro comm over web)and accept files over IM, Mirc, or IRC or what can also be called IRQ (Internet Relay Query channels), the odds are one of the 50+ new viruses (I am discounting trojans, there were MORE THAN that many of those released onto the web also) that I know hit Europe and the Far East and Scandinavia in the last ten days and can be spread by IM and P2P hit your box soon after the reload. A reinfect is likely unless you reinstall and update and reregister your AV before even doing any windowsupdating on the web, then it is still possible something not yet known to Norton got in-- I am on cable also, last time I loaded XP for soemone, they said they wanted the box windowsupdated first. That took ten minutes. Result, two viruses, one of them a msblaster worm that had replicated itself majorly by the time they brought box back claiming Windows had not been loaded right. They paid for the reload, and I had to zero-pack HD before reloading as the other one wanted to live in the boot sector.

    However, there is something else to check that will cause this and often does. Have the box cleaned, especially behind front panel (between front facia panel you see, and inner metal front panel of case chassis-- air normally flows into case through that area and in through holes in front metal panel made just for that reason) and under CPU fan-- by a technician so it does not get static zapped or get tiny important things knocked off motherboard. Then see if it also runs better-- if there is dust either place, removing it and leaving no dust behind and not knocking off anything while cleaning (air can is safest, and a SOFT CHINA HOG BRISTLE brush to lightly and gently take off thick dust while wearing an antistat strap or while using an antistat mat) will make your machine not as likely to overheat and reboot by itself simply due to the CPU overheating. My cases get dedusted inside with an ESD\ data safe vacumm-blower every month or more often. I get zero spontaneous reboots. And I mean ZERO.
  • freddykruegerfreddykrueger
    edited July 2004
    i am not asking the dangers of p2p viruses..... the programs are crashing.... i think it has to do with some drivers not installed or not properly installed.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2004
    Well you did the reformat and reinstall so its sorta hard for us to just sit here and "guess" from our keyboard. Did you check the device manager to see if all the devices seem to be installed properly? You havent mentioned any of the hardware you have, the OS your running or anything about your setup or the drivers you used or any probs you had installing etc.... Except you crash in the p2p stuff and we both warned you how dangerous that was.

    Sorry. You haven't given us to much to work with here. This is sorta like sending us out fishing with no bait and no pole either. I feel like I'm just sitting on the bank in the sun trying to whistle the fish out.

    Tex
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    I'll focus on P2P for a moment then. Lots of ISPs are starting to BLOCK P2P, and many know the primary ports. They are doing so simply to cut down bandwidth overload. Some of them are actively doing this to the extent of stating P2P use is outside the Acceptable User Profile, or putting in your service acceptance contraact that P2P is NOT allowed. Your ISP might be doing so, know the primary port, and not know the secondary connect for what you use.

    Some viral things also target P2P software, and some trojans use P2P ports. Also check for virused P2P software on your computer-- but a block can be done in such a way that P2P crashes, and some firewalls will block P2P ports by default and then you have to tell the firewall to make an exception for the ports you want the P2P software to use. I will not help more than that, sorry, not here or anywhere. Talk to the folks that wrote the P2P software about setting up alternate connect ports, please, or the host of the main node your software hooks to if this is server controlled and routed and indexed P2P.

    If this is BitTorrent you might need a new BitTorrent connection file for each of the torrents you want to establish. BUT, BitTorrent should just sit there, not crash, unless it itself is infected-- even IF it has NO .bt files for torrent establishment and control.
  • NomadNomad A Small Piece of Hell Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    *Edit*

    Whoops, I read wrong.
  • freddykruegerfreddykrueger
    edited July 2004
    Nomad wrote:
    That still doesn't solve his problems, it's not just happening with P2P programs, it's happening with everything. Do you have one hardrive with partitions or multiple hardrives.



    no its only happening with p2p programs... the drivers was just a guess... any other thing i use works fine.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2004
    try checking the event logs
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited July 2004
    it might have somthing to do with the firewall settings any 1 wanna pickup on this i dont use firewalls soo......
  • red777red777
    edited July 2004
    it maybe the file your trying download ive had a few probs latley
    last night pc crashed 5xs
    ok 2day getting stuff from different sources
    what you using
  • freddykruegerfreddykrueger
    edited July 2004
    im using winmx.... and no its not my firewall. i disabled it and even tired uninstalling it.. progrma still crashed
    btw i also had ares do the same thing.
  • NomadNomad A Small Piece of Hell Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    I remember having problems for a little while with Kaaza crashing for no reason on downloads, I never figured out why, with would just come up with the standard, "Would you like to send an error report," and I just reinstalled the program.
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