I have been having a problem with my Verizon DSL staying connected. I have and onboard ethernet connection. It started slowly, where 3-4 times a day i would have to go to my network connection and repair it and things would work fine. When it started happening evey 10-20 min. it made me mad and I started running my connection with a wireless pci card though my router. When it started happening with that card, I installed a NIC card that came with my Verizon modem. It started again. Several times aday, I lose my connection and I have to go to my Network connections and repair it.
At first, I thought it was possibly a problem with my onboard ethernet port on my motherboard. That is why I had switched to my wireless card and now my pci nic card. So i took the computer back to the place I bought and had my motherboard installed. They was to busy to look at it till Tuesday, but said that from the sound of it he was 80% sure that it was a software problem and that I probably had spyware or a virus.
I have ran spybot search and destroy, lavasoft adware 6 and my Nortons Anti-virus (full scan). We went 4 hours fine then bam! Lost connection again.
Any ideas? Hardware? Software?