Help! My computer is refusing to download any files.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I click, it thinks for a bit, then nothing.

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, what browser is it happening in?

Presumably all sites...

Have you tried right clicking and doing a save-as?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Netscape 7.1. That might have helped.

I tried the Fantasy Empires Mod download in Spoon's sig, the PBW site for same and tried to download an e-book from baen. In addition, I tried saving a .jpg

Yep.

[ July 24, 2004, 22:37: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, try a different browser and check for spyware/hijackers.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

ie's download is working. I've started Ad-Aware. How would I look for hijackers?

Oh yeah. When I right-click, it goes to the save as window, but clicking save does nothing.

[ July 24, 2004, 23:09: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, adaware is a good start, spybot is a good teammate for it as well.

You could try hitting CTRL-ALT-DELETE, and checking to see what processes are running.
Google for the ones you don't recognize and post 'em here.

[Baron Munchausen]

Contemporary viruses and trojans are actually smart enough to hide themselves from the built-in task list. You need something 'non-standard' to check for them that way. Unfortunately, the problem being discussed is inability to download so I don't know how you'd acquire something like Powertoys or Kerneltoys with some extra Windows snooping tools (from the MS Programmers themselves, no less!) with that problem in the way.

[Raging Deadstar]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Contemporary viruses and trojans are actually smart enough to hide themselves from the built-in task list. You need something 'non-standard' to check for them that way. Unfortunately, the problem being discussed is inability to download so I don't know how you'd acquire something like Powertoys or Kerneltoys with some extra Windows snooping tools (from the MS Programmers themselves, no less!) with that problem in the way.

I had this problem a long time ago. With Fyrons advice i got my friend to download the firefox installation file and send me it via MSN Messenger and installed it, i soon spent many hours removing internet explorer from my computer and haven't used it since.

Long Live Firefox

[Kamog]

I too have followed Fyron's advice and have been using Firefox for a while now, and I'm very happy with it.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Contemporary viruses and trojans are actually smart enough to hide themselves from the built-in task list. You need something 'non-standard' to check for them that way. Unfortunately, the problem being discussed is inability to download so I don't know how you'd acquire something like Powertoys or Kerneltoys with some extra Windows snooping tools (from the MS Programmers themselves, no less!) with that problem in the way.

Netscape is the only thing that can't download. everything else, including ie, is downloading fine. Where are these things?

As for SJ's processes idea, I don't recognize most of the stuff there.