tmdns loading [OK] problem
 

Hey all. After losing hours of work for my final project due to the Sasser worm I decided to switch to Linux (Mandrake 9.1) due to it's stability. It didn't start to first time, so I ran crying back to my IRC network (In XP, sadly still). The next time it loaded fine but I couldn't connect to the internet, back to my afterNET for me. They asked me a few questions and told me I was on a winmodem, but that's not my problem. Ever since then when I try to start it gets to the loading screen, goes fine until it gets to tmdns loading [OK], then it stops. I've tried cold booting and restarting about fifteen times, but no luck.

Any advice/solutions?

Hate to do this, but I'm just pushing thread back up to the top for more views, I really need help.