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More than likely this is not malware but is rather an indication that your network connection keeps going down or that you have something trying to connect to the internet while you have no connection.

How do you connect to the internet (dial-up, DSL, cable)?
Does the popup occur even while connected to the internet and not playing games?

 

You did not answer my question on how you connect to the internet. Also you did not respond to the fact that you could be running software that is trying to connect (like auto updates for anything).

No! Read the below.

Most people are under the very mistaken misconception that HijackThis is a scanning and detection tool. It is not! HijackThis is simply a tool that is used to identify browser hijackers and in some cases it will show entries for some malware that is for instance running at startup. A HijackThis log shows the following:

• a running process list with no reference to good or bad
• it lists the contents of a selected group of registry keys that is an an extremely small subset of the tens of thousands of keys that may exist. Again no reference to good or bad.
• and some of the above keys that are shown may show some non-Microsoft system services that are running. Again with no reference to good or bad.

The decision on what is good or bad is left a person with significant Windows and malware cleaning experience.

HijackThis does not come close to showing all malware that could be hiding on a PC. Anyone who has an infected computer and is relying on HijackThis without the benefit of running other scans such as Spybot, Windows Defender, BitDefender & Panda, CCleaner, etc. are more than likely still infected. In most cases, where there is one virus/trojan there are more.

The goal of this forum is to remove all malware, and this cannot be done properly by just seeing a HijackThis log.

If you want to check your PC for malware, run the READ & RUN ME and attach the 6 logs requested in the READ ME.