Something is weird. You did a fresh install and immediately you have 15 pups? What AV are you using. This sounds more like a problem with the SSD. Do you have the proper drivers? Can you motherboard support the SSD?And those pups appeared immediately after I turned the internet on. Av is Bit Defender.

I've had this problem for some time, changed hard drive for a ssd, reinstalled win7 from original

CD, installed drivers from CD from Dell. Everything SEEMED fine until I connected the modem

Which was the only device on line. The start button was greyed out, Security center, updates and

Now the keyboard won't work. I'm on a tablet again.







There are more problems on this computer that I can repair remotely. Someone with a LOT of computer experience will have to take a hands on approach to repair this problem. I still believe it's a hardware problem. Did you check your Device Manager to see if there are any yellow warning icons?Morning, Dave;

I finally removed the DSS and CMOS battery, cleaned the drive with factory software and reflashed the BIOS.

Reinstalled everything, OS from factory disks and nothing else, no usb drives or SD cards.

So far, all looks good. Scanners that detected IAT HOOKS, no longer find anything. We may

have , finally cleaned this machine!

Thanks for all your time and effort, Dave. I'll let you know how it GOES.

That is good news. I'll leave this thread open and you can let me know how it goes.