Impossible

About a month ago, I turned on my machine. I logged into Win2k and to my surprise, I can't access the internet. Almost like I was disconnected from my LAN. I checked all my cables and they worked fine so I figure I have a virus. I use Norton Anti Virus (which sucks a nut but i have it for free so..) and scan my whole HDD. Didn't pick up anything. So I tried restarting into Safemode with networking, and to my unpleasant surprise, internet access is still disabled. I tell myself then that it must be some trojan thats got on my boot up files. So i wiped out my whole HDD, and even bought a new HDD for my win2k files. l installed windows its patches and SP's onto the new harddrive. That night, after I installed about half of my old programs again, i reboot and I cant access the internet again. So i run SygatePersonal Firewall and it doesnt pick up anything unusual. I set it so it boots up on windows load up. I reboot normally and for some reason, I was able to access the internet. This is my temporary fix. I thought it mightve been some software that i might've pirated but then this virus or whatever thing got worse. Then next time i booted up and logged on, an error message pops up saying my paging file was too small. So i press ok and everything boots up and i can access the interenet (thanks to SPF) but when I look down on my toolbar and my Norton is disabled (this is what makes me think it is a virus). My system is now worse, windows installer and windows registry is jacked. The last programs I installed onto my computer that may have set this virus/error was DeadAIM 4.0 and Diskeeper Lite. Lately, the thing has gotten worse. It's gotten into my windows installer files and jacked it up.

(I can renable my Norton's auto protect but not its auto live update and my machine runs sluggishly, I've tried different anti virus software (including AntiVir and AVG), and tried adaware.)

Can anyone help me out here?

Download, Update, Immunize and Run

Spybot Search & Destroy

http://www.safer-networking.org/

Dump your pirated software, you'll have nothing but problems.

Tom

looks like it might work but my windows installer is jacked up and i can't install or uninstall anything...