3 questions

[FeelGood]

Hi all,

I really want to know how do we check whether the internet connection we are using is direct or through proxy using command prompt. I remember reading it somewhere that we can check this but just can't recall it! Are all internet apps using the internet options settings?

Another thing is, I'm using firefox 3.0.13. Sometimes my cpu usage goes to 100% without reasons. From process explorer, I could see that it mostly due to firefox or media player. Mostly it happens when watching movies using media player classic. In a few instances, it's followed by graphic driver crash. The driver is from dell website.

I'm using dell xps 1330. Is it virus, driver or something. My antivirus (kaspersky 2009), antispyware etc never detect anything suspicious!

Thanks.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

For the first one, you can do start>run>cmd and then do a tracert to the website you want. Such as tracert www.google.com. You gotta know how to make sense of that though.

You dell has an nvidia GPU right? Then you can use drivers right from nVidia. Try them out. Also, make sure you have all codec's necessary installed. KLite does that for you.

I doubt your computer is infected though.

 

[FeelGood]

I know tracert. There is something else that I don't exactly remember. What I remember is when using this command, the result could be "direct access" or something else (I don't remember).

Thank you though for the reply.

For driver, download directly from nvidia is ok? Then, I'll try.

 

[Turner]

ipconfig?

 

[warpus]

I've recently stopped using Firefox because it's become such a huge memory/CPU hog. This only started happening after a Firefox update... I have no idea what the update did - Firefox used to be such a great alternative to the choppy and clunky internet explorer.

I've switched to Chrome since and don't have any more issues.