About six months ago, I purchased a Belkin Wireless G Plus MIMO Router, at the suggestion of a computer-wise colleague, for the purpose of sharing my internet connection with a second computer (Dell Dimension 2400 to Dell Dimension 3000).  Up until now, it has worked wonderfully, dropping the connection only once.  However, three days ago, everything took a turn for the worse.  I was browsing YouTube when my connection just dropped: no warning, no obvious problems, it simply dropped.  I made numerous attempts to re-connect (unplugging the receiver (Belkin Wireless G Plus MIMO USB Network Adapter), modem, and router; uninstalling and reinstalling the receiver software; rebooting both computers; resetting the router itself by two different methods; running scans on the receiving computer), all of which failed.  Looking at the Belkin utility screen, the receiving computer could pick up the router's signal, but refused to connect.  Just yesterday, after leaving the Belkin utility open for some time while fuming angrily elsewhere, I came back to find it acting rather... "abnormally": parts of the utility's visuals were missing, some would appear while others disappeared, and so on and so forth.  The sending computer also had a slight problem, complaining about a corrupted file (swdoctor.exe), and, following a subsequent reboot, it initiated "chkdsk" utility and repaired said corrupted file(s), one of which contained the word "belkin".

 

I have no idea what is happening here (virus, hardware malfunction, etc.), and any ideas/solutions will be most appreciated.;)

 

Thanks.:)