Joe,
I have a pet peeve with people who seem to engage pontification without any facts to initiate the statements. It must be you, it must be a virus, it must be your router. With no knowledge or evidence of any of these as possible sources of problems, many tech support people seem to magically know the impossible answer.
Now, in the face of my statements to the contrary, you are standing your ground. No updates from intel that could have impacted the system. Those are your statements. You are committed to your cause.
11/22/2013 12:01 PM <DIR> Intel
11/22/2013 12:01 PM <DIR> ..
11/22/2013 12:01 PM <DIR> .
11/22/2013 11:59 AM 230,352 Intelr_PROSet_Wireless_Software_20131122115850_1_Driver.log
11/22/2013 12:00 PM 684 PanDhcpDnsInstall.txt
11/22/2013 12:01 PM 4,321,438 Intelr_PROSet_Wireless_Software_20131122115850_2_WiFi.log
11/22/2013 12:01 PM <DIR> iProInstLogs
11/22/2013 12:01 PM 5,936 Intelr_PROSet_Wireless_Software_20131122120122.log
11/22/2013 12:01 PM 34,544 Intelr_PROSet_Wireless_Software_20131122115850.log
11/22/2013 11:58 AM 34,478 Intelr_PROSet_Wireless_Software_20131122115850.log
11/22/2013 11:59 AM 230,352 Intelr_PROSet_Wireless_Software_20131122115850_1_Driver.log
11/22/2013 12:01 PM 4,321,438 Intelr_PROSet_Wireless_Software_20131122115850_2_WiFi.log
11/22/2013 12:01 PM 5,870 Intelr_PROSet_Wireless_Software_20131122120122.log
This is a directory from the system in question. If there was no intel update pushed last month, why do I have all of these intel files with a modified date of 11/22/2013?
Joe, I am not sure of where you have retrieved your information. The evidence is mounting the information is incorrect. Maybe I have the only computer on the planet that was pushed an update in November. Maybe. But, more likely, I believe that this is happening to people who are paying to have a virus removed or some other such non-sense.
Can we find a way to really figure this out? I really try to document and follow the evidence in this situation. The evidence, from my 25 years of experience, is that this problem is related to an update. An Intel update specifically, that occurred on 11/22.
I have now supplied some proof that your statements were false. There was an update. Please offer a real solution or ideas to this issue based on factual information. Please as someone with the handle, Joe Intel, please act responsibly and not as someone solely trying to defend Intel.
Can we agree an update occurred and talk about how it might have impacted the system?