Hello everyone,
I'm not quite sure where to post this; I've posted in both the Networking forum and here.
I'm sure the mods will clean things up if need be.
Anyway, I'm using an HP 15-r264dx running Windows 7.
My Wi-Fi is not working and shows up as enabled but disconnected in my notification area, and according to ipconfig/all.
However, under control panel device manager, it appears to be enabled and shows no issues with its driver.
My Ethernet connection, though, is fine.
My Wi-Fi is, in fact, enabled, just not connected to anything.
In fact, my Wi-Fi is not picking up any signals from any routers anywhere.
What happens is that after restart or cold start, the wifi remains disconnected as I described.
I then have to reinstall the driver and replace the one already installed.
Everything remains fine until the next restart, cold start, or hibernation, and then the problem begins all over again.
But, something else is happening.
My anti-virus software, Panda Protection free version, continually catches a trojan right after restart or cold start.
The virus is always in the Windows/temp folder and takes on different names for each iteration.
Panda considers each iteration to be of type Trj/Agent.OMX and the names that the virus has taken on the past five iterations are:
g750.tmp.exe
g8F72.tmp.exe
gD328.tmp.exe
gD6BE.tmp.exe
gDFA8.tmp.exe
I don't know that much about malware, but I don't think that it's too difficult to engineer a virus that takes on different names each iteration.
As this keeps happening when I boot, I can only assume that the boot process is compromised.
That is, either my MBR, boot sector, or, God forbid, my firmware have been infected.
It would be too much of a coincidence for the two issues to be unrelated; they both started at the same time after all.
So, any advice, guys?
I have become too paranoid to use that HD, so I swapped it out for Win 8.1.
P.S.
I scanned the entire drive both when placed internally and externally as a USB peripheral and Panda finds no problems.
I'm not quite sure where to post this; I've posted in both the Networking forum and here.
I'm sure the mods will clean things up if need be.
Anyway, I'm using an HP 15-r264dx running Windows 7.
My Wi-Fi is not working and shows up as enabled but disconnected in my notification area, and according to ipconfig/all.
However, under control panel device manager, it appears to be enabled and shows no issues with its driver.
My Ethernet connection, though, is fine.
My Wi-Fi is, in fact, enabled, just not connected to anything.
In fact, my Wi-Fi is not picking up any signals from any routers anywhere.
What happens is that after restart or cold start, the wifi remains disconnected as I described.
I then have to reinstall the driver and replace the one already installed.
Everything remains fine until the next restart, cold start, or hibernation, and then the problem begins all over again.
But, something else is happening.
My anti-virus software, Panda Protection free version, continually catches a trojan right after restart or cold start.
The virus is always in the Windows/temp folder and takes on different names for each iteration.
Panda considers each iteration to be of type Trj/Agent.OMX and the names that the virus has taken on the past five iterations are:
g750.tmp.exe
g8F72.tmp.exe
gD328.tmp.exe
gD6BE.tmp.exe
gDFA8.tmp.exe
I don't know that much about malware, but I don't think that it's too difficult to engineer a virus that takes on different names each iteration.
As this keeps happening when I boot, I can only assume that the boot process is compromised.
That is, either my MBR, boot sector, or, God forbid, my firmware have been infected.
It would be too much of a coincidence for the two issues to be unrelated; they both started at the same time after all.
So, any advice, guys?
I have become too paranoid to use that HD, so I swapped it out for Win 8.1.
P.S.
I scanned the entire drive both when placed internally and externally as a USB peripheral and Panda finds no problems.
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