<You’re on dial up and have your router disconnected, right? Then, that would be normal.
When I'm disconnected from dial-up it says there is media disconnected, which never happened before. I used to have an "always connected" connection so doing ipconfig at any time would return results.
However, ever since I've had the red x through the LAN icon in the bottom right of the screen, doing an ipconfig returns the "media disconnected" error message. Maybe this is normal, though, considering my circumstances.
The new modem should be here on Friday. Not sure that will resolve the problem, though, if the problem was/is really spyware.
Despite changing the DNS to the proper addresses, I still can't get online with LAN, just dial-up.
For the five seconds that I appear to be connected, the speed drops from 100 mbps to 10 mbps in a second or two, before giving the "a network cable is unplugged" message.
Any idea why that would be?
Thanks again very much for all your posts. Most helpful and appreciated.
Do you have a home network? Can you connect to another machine using your network, if you have one?
Are you using any wireless at all on that machine?