Hello all, can someone please help me, a year and a couple hundred Euro later still have my problem. Internet explorer keeps opening by itself - up to a hundred pages, all to the home page. I have had people look at re-formatted the harddrive several times and nothing. Have tries God knows how many spyware/malware remover, anyi virus etc. Cannot get into other programs once it gets going as IE keeps popping up in front of everything I try to do. Thinking about getting a new Hard Drive for it beacuse at my wots end with it. Thanks, Karg
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Jump to PostBefore running ComboFix you should have turned of System Restore
NO! Bad advice! Do not disable System Restore until told to do so by someone who knows what they are doing.
Frankly, running combofix at this stage (and improperly at that) is not called for.
However, in this …
Jump to PostWhat you saw in the combofix files - can you tell if that is the remnants of the virus i mentioned or is it a different one?
I'd like to know that as well - I didn't see anything.
@top10ufo:
I am not sure what you have the poster …
Jump to Post@top10ufo:
I don't mean to demean your knowledge in any way shape or form - If I did, I apologize.This is just not good advice, simply saying:
Try using ComboFix if you haven't already.
When you posted that, I kinda figured you were just here to spam your …
Jump to PostYou could try the hardware Forum here at Daniweb:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/forum7.html
A lot of smart people - they might have some better ideas than what I can come up with.
Be sure to tell them that we ruled out malware.Cheers :)
PP
Jump to PostThanks a million - so much appreciated
Happy to try to help!
I'll keep my fingers crossed.
PP :)
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Solved - Excellent Advisor - much appreciated +1
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