I recently had crapware, removed what I thought was all of it. I reset my winsocks/flushed the DNS, now everyonce in a while I get the two computers icon in systray, saying that it is 'acquiring network address'. says so right now which sounds funny to me because I am connected obviously but according to windows I am not. If I hide the icon it still shows in network connections window. So am I getting full download speeds? how can I fix this. cuz it is stating to iritate me! should I install some AV/malware scanner (just got done removing NIS 07) I know I have spyware somewhere cuz I keep getting these pages opening up to a blank page (I updated my host file after running ewido scan). should I delete my winsocks and reinstall them(+my TCP/IP connection)? I just really hate seeing that 'connection error mean while I can download and surf while that is being displayed!!!! ARRRGGG!!!! (happy thoughts happy thoughts.....)