50,483 Archived Topics

Remove Filter
Member Avatar for
Member Avatar for rea123gan

hey guys so i got a problem..........i dont know if i got a virus or what but every time i even begin to open a program that annoying windows installer box comes up and "prepares to download" it does it like its a popup u cant get rid of.....can some …

Member Avatar for frenemy
0
106
Member Avatar for StandardsDT

hey everyone there are a few unwanted programs in the startup....i uninstalled them last week since i hardly used them at all and they are off the system. but for some reason they are still showing up in the start up. i dont mean the start menu, im talking about …

Member Avatar for StandardsDT
0
169
Member Avatar for zxc

I am planning to upgrade a machine from ME to XP. (700mhz, 512mb/30G, CDRW, DVD). This is not my main machine. My question is, what do I need to do to make sure the new installation has the required device drivers? Do I need to get the drivers from the …

Member Avatar for frenemy
0
148
Member Avatar for StandardsDT

how do i activate the minimize/restore animation and the showsounds accessibility feature? here is a screen shot i took of EVEREST saying they are deactivated for my desktop maybe that will make more sense. any ideas? [IMG]http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/169/ss5le.gif[/IMG]

Member Avatar for frenemy
0
100
Member Avatar for the_joker

I dont know how can I uninstal my home-page (about:blanck) and a few pages from Favourites...FOREVER If you will hijackthis log or what send reply than I post it. THANKS

Member Avatar for DMR
0
163
Member Avatar for tugnutt

It would appear that I've got Aurora and Trojan Horse Downloader.Small.15.BS; here's my Hijackthis log Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 2:26:58 AM, on 7/7/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\LEXBCES.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\LEXPPS.EXE C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\AOL\ACS\acsd.exe …

Member Avatar for tugnutt
0
416
Member Avatar for StandardsDT

im looking to find out my specs on my windows xp professional pc. i used to have a program that did this for me. it told me everything i needed to know had the manufacturers links next to the product name etc. does anyone know what program i am talking …

Member Avatar for StandardsDT
0
171
Member Avatar for Shindy

while im rebooting again and again in windows cause its not working, when it says welcome in the screen, the screen goes blank, every bulb is still lit (HDD, Mouse, Keyboard) and makes tiny ticking sound in the CD drive. In CMOS i have SMART capability enabled, 1st boot device …

Member Avatar for StandardsDT
0
116
Member Avatar for quicksilvcanuck

Hey; When i click on favorites in my explorer it shuts down the browser. I know someone else made a post of this and was told to use 'hijackthis' and post the results so here is what came up when i did my scan. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved …

Member Avatar for quicksilvcanuck
0
165
Member Avatar for carolerose

Please help! Aurora pop-ups continue to appear even though I've run through Norton's trojan horse removal procedure several times. I was reading other entries in this forum and was going to attempt a fix prescribed to others members, but because they were customized recommendations based on their personal computer's "health" …

Member Avatar for DMR
0
216
Member Avatar for ArbAg

I am wanting to put Fedora on my laptop that currently runs XP. I want to do a dual boot, thus I need to create a new partition. Here's the problem: In XP, when I go to computer management, it shows that the entire hard drive has only 1 partition. …

Member Avatar for mepnoob2005
0
153
Member Avatar for endforward

Running WinXP on the machine, it's only about 2 years old, the video card work fine (tested it in my other computer), the hard drive sounds like it is booting up, ram is in the correct place and works in other computers, no beeps from the mobo when it's starting …

Member Avatar for caperjack
0
135
Member Avatar for Koteswar

Hi, I have Redhat 9.0 OS on my system. It came with CD writer software. I am able to play CD without any issues. But the CD writer software is not working. Is there any that I am missing, or any thing that I have to download on my PC. …

Member Avatar for mepnoob2005
0
110
Member Avatar for poundy

[B]I really need help[/B] I have Msn Meesenger 6.0 but when I try to start converstion with friend I get message saying NO try again. So I went and Uninstall it and then reinstall but when I did it came up saying at I have MSN EXPLORER and that msn …

Member Avatar for mepnoob2005
0
240
Member Avatar for Claire88

Hi My computer is infected with some sort of Adware/Spyware/Virus that adds links to certain words, which if you click on them expecting them to be a legitimate link it send you to [url]www.server4.103092804.com[/url] with adverts. Does anyone know how to get rid of this? I have Norton Anti Virus …

Member Avatar for atmtsu
0
203
Member Avatar for frenemy

Eh, attempted to fix another comp heavily infested with a worm. Ran McAfee AV. It cleaned some files, I quaranteed others, and deleted the rest. It told me to reboot so I did. I ran every thing on the Rescue Disk and it found nothing. After I choose a user …

Member Avatar for swatkat
0
327
Member Avatar for Reljoy

I have this dll in my windows\system32 directory. I can't find it on the net using any of the major search engines. It has been reported as being infected with a virus by Microworld AntiVirus & Spyware Toolkit Utility from [url]http://www.mwti.net/antivirus/mwav.asp[/url] No OTHER antivirus tool I have used says I …

Member Avatar for dlh6213
0
144
Member Avatar for MartyMcFly

I recently started having some problems with my display, specs as follows Athlon 3200 ATI X800 Pro 300w PSU Asus K8VSEDX Motherboard SATA HDD 200Gb, single partition mostly empty. 1.5gb RAM PC3200 Hyundi Image Quest Q995 CRT Monitor. XP - SP1, This problem occured after I installed Battlefield 2 on …

Member Avatar for MartyMcFly
0
169
Member Avatar for sammy976

Hi Everyone. This is my first time posting. I'd appreciate any help. Here's the problem: My teenage son was using my computer. I have Norton Anti Virus and alert windows started popping up about "high risk" and programs attempting to connect to DSN server. Some of them are "wupdt.exe", "thnall1a.exe", …

Member Avatar for swatkat
0
198
Member Avatar for knurd

How do i get rid of them? Thanks in advance. more thanks to come. David part 1 of 2 of file Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 2:42:53 PM, on 7/9/2005 Platform: Unknown Windows (WinNT 5.02.3790 SP1, v.1023) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 (6.00.3790.0000) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe …

Member Avatar for swatkat
0
459
Member Avatar for the_joker

This is my hi-jack this log....Thanks for your help. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 20:24:42, on 04.07.2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Programme\Intel\Wireless\Bin\EvtEng.exe C:\Programme\Intel\Wireless\Bin\S24EvMon.exe C:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien\Symantec Shared\ccProxy.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe C:\Programme\Norton Internet …

Member Avatar for swatkat
0
236
Member Avatar for frenemy

My friend gets this ONLY when there is an internet connection available. Would this be an incorrect IRQ setting or faulty modem and ethernet NIC problem? Because the BSoD occurs with either of them.

Member Avatar for frenemy
0
224
Member Avatar for cybohemia

Hi. A virus appeared on my computer a few days ago and I've not been able to get rid of it, yet. In fact, I think it's expanded and let in a lot of other viruses, dyfuca and elite toolbar among them. AVG, Adware and Spybot Search and Destroy all …

Member Avatar for DMR
0
368
Member Avatar for wandajm

On my sister's thinkpad I was trying to reinstall windows 95.(We were have issuse with it) After the installtion was complete and I was told to restart the laptop. After it got to the window 95 start up screen this message appeared: A file device file that is specific in …

Member Avatar for wandajm
0
107
Member Avatar for subster

mobo is a chaintech vn4 ultra 939 socket proccy a 939 3700+ 1 stick of 512ddr400 ram is in it a 420 power supply everything is hooked up including the front panel stuff, i turn on the power and hit the switch nothing happens. i only hear the Powersupply noise. …

Member Avatar for Catweazle
0
118
Member Avatar for ian_tec234

hi, im underclocking my como because i leave it overnight to run small programs, downloading primarily. well i decided to underclock it since i dont need the ghz and all. and im thinking that underclocking will lessen the temp on the cpu, well it did by 9 celcius. im jsut …

0
72
Member Avatar for j_mach

Hey guys, I do video editing on my laptop (see specs below), and I save the video clips to a Maxtor external hard drive (USB). So, when I render projects and burn DVDs on my computer, it uses the video files that are on the external hard drive. This Blue …

Member Avatar for JoetjeF
0
142
Member Avatar for damiany2j

I have a computer which has a Pentium 4, 2.6Ghz processor, 1Gb of DDR RAM, and a 120Gb Hard drive. The computer is one I bought from the website [url]www.omni-data.co.uk[/url] which no longer seems to be working. I have used it fine for 3 years and suddenly, it has developed …

Member Avatar for Catweazle
0
375
Member Avatar for Proost

Hello all- I am kind of a Mac newbie, so please bear with me. I am looking at purchasing a used ibook G4 from a friend that is is running the "panther" OS. Currently, I have a windows based PC with an NTFS formatted USB 2.0 external hard drive that …

Member Avatar for Proost
0
168
Member Avatar for Crazy_M

Ok, I have all my hardware stuff hooked up to standard ide cables ide-1 has my hardrive to my cd-rom ide - 2 has my cd-rw and my 2nd cd-rom my question is, can i put a 2nd hard drive on SATA 1 or SATA 2 ? and have it …

Member Avatar for BTRenegade
0
190
Member Avatar for Alka69

Hi. Hope someone can help me with this. i've run numerous scanners but i still seem to get popups....etc... i got my HJT included here..... PLEASE HELP ME Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 23:38:11, on 09/07/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) …

Member Avatar for frenemy
0
111
Member Avatar for calmchaos

Ok i bought the new PSU (which is the new 550 aerocool) and it still wont give me a POST beep... its not grounded im sure of that. but i cannot get a post beep even with the new PSU Is it the CPU? system is 3200Newcastle DFI 250GB UT …

Member Avatar for calmchaos
0
147
Member Avatar for mommymomof2

:evil: WHY AM I GETTING A DNS ERROR for shdoclc.dll file???? I have tried all possible solutions to this problem, but I just can't seem to fix it. I am running Windows XP w/ sp2 and IE6. I have had this problem since May of this year. I cannot connect …

Member Avatar for wazzums
0
253
Member Avatar for Pim

I'm going to upgrade my pc (motherboard memory ect) but what is the diffirence betwen Clawhammer and Newcastle processors? i only know Clawhammers are more expensive. Thanks

Member Avatar for djrivera1
0
453
Member Avatar for TechGuy42

I am looking for a dedicated server for game servers. I know of the planet but they dont meet the needs I want. I would like a few data centres in the Canada and the USA well accross North America. I would like them to hve a control panel like …

Member Avatar for blud
0
209
Member Avatar for Aardcore

This sucks, I'm starting to think this card is only capable to be on an Athlon 64 or some P4 processor cuz I've tried everything else, even replaced the power supply in my computer from a weak 240W to a 400W and I thought that was the problem that there …

Member Avatar for madcrazy
0
570
Member Avatar for cancer10

Which you think is the best one? [URL=http://www.lavasoftusa.com/]LavaSoft Ad-aware[/URL] [URL=http://www.sunbelt-software.com/CounterSpy.cfm]CounterSpy[/URL] [URL=http://www.earthlink.net/software/nmfree/spyaudit/]Earthlink Spy Audit[/URL] [URL=http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx]Microsoft AntiSpyware[/URL] [URL=http://www.pestpatrol.com/]PestPatrol[/URL] [URL=http://www.safer-networking.org/]Spybot Search & Destroy[/URL] [URL=http://www.webroot.com/products/spysweeper/index.php?rc=432]Spysweeper[/URL] [URL=http://toolbar.yahoo.com/ie]Yahoo Toolbar[/URL] [URL=http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html]SpywareBlaster[/URL] [URL=http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/?ref=afl_adreport]PCTools Spyware Doctor [/URL] [URL=http://noadware.net/]NoAdware[/URL] [URL=http://www.palsol.com/]PALSol[/URL] [URL=http://www.spykiller.com/]SpyKiller[/URL] [URL=http://www.stopzilla.com/]StopZilla![/URL] [URL=http://us.mcafee.com/root/package.asp?pkgid=182&cid=9904]McAfee[/URL] [URL=http://www.enigmasoftwaregroup.com/spy-hunter/spy-hunter.shtml]Spy-Hunter[/URL]

Member Avatar for DMR
0
144
Member Avatar for mjyule

Got a friends PC to try and fix, main problem was the "antivirus gold" malware. I used Killbox and Hijack this to remove it and I thought I was good to go. But the PC ,or Exporer to be precise, is riddled with something that I can't work out. It's …

Member Avatar for DMR
0
236
Member Avatar for rediriger-daniw

Here is my problem: After the logo "Microsoft Windows XP" and the loading bar moving, the screen goes black, but while I still see the black screen the windows song comes on: Windows is started but I can't see it! What is the solution ??? I can start the computer …

Member Avatar for rediriger-daniw
0
188
Member Avatar for A Monkeys Uncle

Can Anyone Help Me? IE Running Slow, Spybot Wont Boot, AVG Wont Update, but it found viruses only I don't have the "Pro" version so it wont get rid of them. IE wont run at all sometimes, and other times it just runs very slow. Sorry my "Hi-Jack This" log …

Member Avatar for A Monkeys Uncle
0
380
Member Avatar for Stephan

I have been trying to get rid of this virus for a while not sure what it is I used HJT and delete something that had About:blank at the end in the IE directory But Everyonce in a while I get a popup thatI cant minimize and when I close …

Member Avatar for Stephan
0
61
Member Avatar for tomcruise3230

Dear members: does any one know please where do isend my laptop to be opened to take out the old hd and put a new hd in? (checked bestbuy, circui tcity, staples, and my nearest toshiba laptop providers: all do it for at least 70 dollars just for taking out …

Member Avatar for tomcruise3230
0
126
Member Avatar for RENT

Ahhh, these 2 pesky things are ruining my computer. There's probably more problems too! AIM wouldn't work, I don't think IE works either. I found someone else's thread about these programs and they were told to do a HijackThis thing, and this is the first time I'm ever doing it, …

Member Avatar for dlh6213
0
180
Member Avatar for Shadoefax

Hi all. A friend of mine dropped off his computer for me to attempt to fix. It was loaded with [i]Viruses, Spyware, & other Nasties. [/i]I was able to fix most of the problems, but am stuck on the last two. 1) About every five minutes the following image pops …

Member Avatar for DMR
0
124
Member Avatar for cheeba0228

Hi everyone I have pop-ups that are out of control. I ran a spy-bot, and Ad-Aware and still they persue. I'll post the HJT list here, also there was a program called tvs_b I seem to have removed that but it will occasionally pop its head back in the HJT …

Member Avatar for dlh6213
0
123
Member Avatar for James VanScoy

Everytime I try to install something on my iMac G-3 it says "Classic can not find a Mac OS 9 system folder on the startup disk to use," and then it says "You may need to install Mac OS 9.1 or later on your computer. To select a system folder …

Member Avatar for digger
0
207
Member Avatar for Girloutside

Hi I've been having repeated problems with the above virus infecting my system. I have up to date Norton antivirus software which didn't seem to be able to shift it, and have since run lots of different scans and spyware programs in an attempt to remove it. The most effective …

Member Avatar for LostSoul
0
248
Member Avatar for monte carlo ss

here's my hjt log files hope you can help me with this Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 17:16:56, on 2005-07-07 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\csrss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\Ati2evxx.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\inetsrv\inetinfo.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe …

Member Avatar for DMR
0
324
Member Avatar for kingdawiyd

can anyone help here is the hijack log. i am having all sorts of pop-ups and crap Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 11:23:24 AM, on 7/8/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\PROGRA~1\SYMANT~1\SYMANT~1\DefWatch.exe …

Member Avatar for DMR
0
152
Member Avatar for cdr

Hi All I am new, so I will do my best to explain my situation. I am not sure if it is a Windows Issue or Spyware issue. Maybe someone will know? I am running on a wireless network, no obvious network problems. Am also running NortonIS, SpybotS&D and Spyware …

Member Avatar for cdr
0
109

The End.