About three days ago I noticed a huge decrease in net speed. Download speeds are ridiculously low and something that usually takes 10 seconds now takes 3 minutes. I can't even watch Youtube videos, since even at 240p resolution I have lots of buffering (usually I can watch videos with almost no buffering at 720p)...

As such I'm blaming a virus but I've ran MSE's scan plus MalwareBytes Anti Malware's (as I always do when I go to the PC) and due to this situation I even did Panda's Active Scan 2.0 online and yet I have 0 threats or infected files in any of those three but I find no other explanation

BTW I'm using Win7 Ultimate 32 and besides the tools I've said I also use ZoneAlarm's Free Firewall.

Please help, Thanks

Sounds more like a network fail. Try resetting your router and modem.

I'm a laptop, net comes from a usb pen so it resets every time I've turn the PC on. And this has been happening for the past days so doubt it's related...

the router and modem doesn't reset whenever your laptop connects

and if you have a wireless network without password protection or mac address filtering then someone could be connected to your modem and stealing your bandwidth

That's just your WiFi receiver. Perhaps you should try a different one?

Are you on the same network? Did someone else set up a WiFi router using the same channel as yours?

Also, Ditre brings up a good point. Make sure the network is secure.

Sure you haven't reached the limit?

I don't think it's wi fi...it's not wireless (I know wi fi and wireless aren't the same thing but I don't think it's wi fi since net is only avaible to the PC the usb pen is connected to).

As for secure, considering it's not wireless I'm pretty sure it's secure.



It doesn't have one.

BTW my sent and received packets (I think that's what you call them) are at 0 and I saw somewhere that it means I probably have spyware :blink:

You know what?! I'll just re instal Windows 7...usually that solves any problem