I use Windows ME and I have been experiencing problems when I open notepad and after about 5 mins it closes by its self and it doesn't even prompt me to save my information. Is this because of spyware or a virus?
SilentBob3208 0 Junior Poster
DMR 152 Wombat At Large Team Colleague
You should probably check your system for viruses and other nasties. Run a full virus scan with Norton, McAfee, or whatever program you use, making sure that you've updated it with the absolutely most current virus definitions.
After that, have a look through the threads in our Security forum to find out how to download and use utilities such as Spybot Search & Destroy, Ad Aware, and HijackThis. Run those utilities, and if they do find "spyware" and you have any further questions about that, start a new thread in the Security forum, giving us as much info as possible in your post. (Please do not post any virus/spyware/etc-related questions in any forum other than the Security forum.)
alc6379 120 Cookie... That's it Team Colleague
Do you get any error messages or anything when this happens?
I'd almost be willing to bet that it is a virus. I know that there was a virus or spyware something or other that actually named its payload notepad.exe. If you ever had this virus, that could be contributing.
Do you have a virus scanner?
DMR 152 Wombat At Large Team Colleague
I know that there was a virus or spyware something or other that actually named its payload notepad.exe. If you ever had this virus, that could be contributing.
Yup, Alex is right- the Qaz virus/trojan does that; here's more info from Symantec (Norton):
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.qaz.a.html
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